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Poli vs Varnish: What are the differences?
What is Poli? *An easy-to-use SQL reporting application *. It is an easy-to-use BI server built for SQL lovers. Power data analysis in SQL and gain faster business insights. It is a platform independent web application.
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.
Poli can be classified as a tool in the "Business Intelligence" category, while Varnish is grouped under "Web Cache".
Poli and Varnish are both open source tools. Poli with 1.26K GitHub stars and 151 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Varnish with 908 GitHub stars and 216 GitHub forks.
Pros of Poli
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