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Nuster vs Varnish: What are the differences?
What is Nuster? A high performance HTTP proxy cache server and RESTful NoSQL cache server based on HAProxy. nuster is a high performance HTTP proxy cache server and RESTful NoSQL cache server based on HAProxy.
What is Varnish? High-performance HTTP accelerator. Varnish Cache is a web application accelerator also known as a caching HTTP reverse proxy. You install it in front of any server that speaks HTTP and configure it to cache the contents. Varnish Cache is really, really fast. It typically speeds up delivery with a factor of 300 - 1000x, depending on your architecture.
Nuster and Varnish can be categorized as "Web Cache" tools.
Nuster and Varnish are both open source tools. Nuster with 1.41K GitHub stars and 102 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Varnish with 907 GitHub stars and 216 GitHub forks.
Pros of Nuster
- Easy to configure2
- High-performance1
- Web cache1
- Web application accelerator1
- Very Fast1
- Open Source1
- Load balancer1
- Proxying for tcp and http1
- SSL termination1
- Free1
- HTTP reverse proxy0
Pros of Varnish
- High-performance104
- Very Fast67
- Very Stable57
- Very Robust44
- HTTP reverse proxy37
- Open Source21
- Web application accelerator18
- Easy to config11
- Widely Used5
- Great community4
- Essential software for HTTP2
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