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Kore vs Passenger: What are the differences?
What is 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.
What is Passenger? A fast and robust web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js. Phusion Passenger is a web server and application server, designed to be fast, robust and lightweight. It takes a lot of complexity out of deploying web apps, adds powerful enterprise-grade features that are useful in production, and makes administration much easier and less complex.
Kore and Passenger can be categorized as "Web Servers" tools.
Kore and Passenger are both open source tools. Passenger with 4.41K GitHub stars and 505 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Kore with 3.09K GitHub stars and 282 GitHub forks.
Pros of Kore
- SPDY2
- Super-lightweight1
- Super-fast1
- Full featured1
- HTTPS1
Pros of Passenger
- Nginx integration43
- Great for rails36
- Fast web server21
- Free19
- Lightweight15
- Scalable14
- Rolling restarts13
- Multithreading10
- Out-of-process architecture9
- Low-bandwidth6
- Virtually infinitely scalable2
- Deployment error resistance2
- Mass deployment2
- High-latency2
- Many of its good features are only enterprise level1
- Apache integration1
- Secure1
- Asynchronous I/O1
- Multiple programming language support1
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Cons of Kore
Cons of Passenger
- Cost (some features require paid/pro)0