Tornado vs Zend Framework

Overview

Tornado

Stacks530

Followers409

Votes167

GitHub Stars22.3K

Forks5.5K

Zend Framework

Stacks262

Followers215

Votes48

Tornado vs Zend Framework: What are the differences?

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; Zend Framework: An open source, object-oriented web application framework implemented in PHP 5. Zend Framework 2 is an open source framework for developing web applications and services using PHP 5.3+. Zend Framework 2 uses 100% object-oriented code and utilises most of the new features of PHP 5.3, namely namespaces, late static binding, lambda functions and closures.

Tornado and Zend Framework belong to "Frameworks (Full Stack)" category of the tech stack.

"Open source" is the primary reason why developers consider Tornado over the competitors, whereas "Open source" was stated as the key factor in picking Zend Framework.

Tornado and Zend Framework are both open source tools. It seems that Tornado with 18K GitHub stars and 4.98K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Zend Framework with 5.71K GitHub stars and 2.87K GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Tornado has a broader approval, being mentioned in 69 company stacks & 16 developers stacks; compared to Zend Framework, which is listed in 40 company stacks and 22 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

Tornado	Zend Framework
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.	It is an open source framework for developing web applications and services using PHP 5.3+. It uses 100% object-oriented code and utilizes most of the new features of namely namespaces, late static binding, lambda functions and closures.
-	Pure object oriented web application framework; Advanced MVC implementation; Supports multi databases including PostgreSQL, SQLite etc; Simple cloud API; Session management; Data encryption; Flexible URI Routing; Zend provides RESTful API development support.
Statistics
GitHub Stars 22.3K	GitHub Stars -
GitHub Forks 5.5K	GitHub Forks -
Stacks 530	Stacks 262
Followers 409	Followers 215
Votes 167	Votes 48
Pros & Cons
Pros 37 Open source 31 So fast 27 Great for microservices architecture 20 Websockets 17 Simple Cons 2 Event loop is complicated	Pros 25 Open source 11 Community 4 Fast 3 Scalable 2 Many library
Integrations
Python	Expressive PHP GitHub Webex

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