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Kore vs Unicorn: What are the differences?
Kore: A fast web server for writing web apps in C. Kore is an easy to use web application framework for writing scalable web APIs in C. Its main goals are security, scalability and allowing rapid development and deployment of such APIs. Because of this Kore is an ideal candidate for building robust, scalable and secure web things; Unicorn: Rack HTTP server for fast clients and Unix. Unicorn is an HTTP server for Rack applications designed to only serve fast clients on low-latency, high-bandwidth connections and take advantage of features in Unix/Unix-like kernels. Slow clients should only be served by placing a reverse proxy capable of fully buffering both the the request and response in between Unicorn and slow clients.
Kore and Unicorn belong to "Web Servers" category of the tech stack.
Kore and Unicorn are both open source tools. Kore with 3.09K GitHub stars and 282 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Unicorn with 1.35K GitHub stars and 249 GitHub forks.
Pros of Kore
- SPDY2
- Super-lightweight1
- Super-fast1
- Full featured1
- HTTPS1
Pros of Unicorn
- Fast81
- Performance59
- Web server36
- Very light30
- Open Source30
- Rack http server27
- Load balancing18
- Great process management14
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Cons of Kore
Cons of Unicorn
- Not multithreaded4
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