Node.js vs Tornado: What are the differences?

What is Node.js? A platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.

What is Tornado? A Python web framework and asynchronous networking library, originally developed at FriendFeed. By using non-blocking network I/O, Tornado can scale to tens of thousands of open connections, making it ideal for long polling, WebSockets, and other applications that require a long-lived connection to each user.

Node.js and Tornado can be primarily classified as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.

"Npm" is the top reason why over 1321 developers like Node.js, while over 34 developers mention "Open source" as the leading cause for choosing Tornado.

Node.js and Tornado are both open source tools. It seems that Node.js with 35.5K GitHub stars and 7.78K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Tornado with 18K GitHub stars and 4.98K GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Node.js has a broader approval, being mentioned in 4102 company stacks & 4028 developers stacks; compared to Tornado, which is listed in 69 company stacks and 16 developer stacks.