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Posted to commits@trafficserver.apache.org by ig...@apache.org on 2012/12/04 00:00:45 UTC

svn commit: r1416719 - /trafficserver/site/trunk/content/why-ats.mdtext

Author: igalic
Date: Mon Dec  3 23:00:44 2012
New Revision: 1416719

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1416719&view=rev
Log:
Add an incomplete and inaccurate comparision with the compeitition

Modified:
    trafficserver/site/trunk/content/why-ats.mdtext

Modified: trafficserver/site/trunk/content/why-ats.mdtext
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/trafficserver/site/trunk/content/why-ats.mdtext?rev=1416719&r1=1416718&r2=1416719&view=diff
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--- trafficserver/site/trunk/content/why-ats.mdtext (original)
+++ trafficserver/site/trunk/content/why-ats.mdtext Mon Dec  3 23:00:44 2012
@@ -97,5 +97,27 @@ Generally speaking there are three types
 * **Transform** - modify the response itself (e.g.: [gzip](/docs/trunk/admin/plugins/gzip)
 * **Protocol** - provide a different protocol (e.g.: [spdy](/docs/trunk/admin/plugins/spdy)
 
+# Comparing Apache Traffic Server to its competition # {#competition}
+
+                 | ATS | Varnish | httpd | nginx | Squid |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+| Worker Threads | ✓   | ✓       | ✓     | ×     | ✓     |
+| Multi-Process  | ×   | ✓       | ✓     | ✓     | ✓     |
+| Event-driven   | ✓   | ×       | ✓     | ✓     | ✓     |
+| Plugin-API     | ✓   | ✓       | ✓     | ✓     | ~     |
+| Reverse Proxy  | ✓   | ✓       | ✓     | ✓     | ✓     |
+| Forward Proxy  | ✓   | ×       | ✓     | ?     | ✓     |
+| Transparent    | ✓   | ×       | ×     | ×     | ✓     |
+| TLS            | ✓   | ×       | ✓     | ✓     | ✓     |
+| Load Balancing | ×   | ✓       | ✓     | ✓     | ✓     |
+| Cache          | ✓   | ✓       | ✓     | ✓     | ✓     |
+| ESI            | ✓   | ✓       | ×     | ×     | ×     |
+| ICP            | ~   | ?       | ?     | ?     | ✓     |
+| Parental Cache | ✓   | ?       | ×     | ?     | ✓     |
+| WCCP           | ✓   | ×       | ×     | ×     | ✓     |
+| SPDY           | ✓   | ×       | ×     | ✓     | ×     |
+| Keep-Alive     | ✓   | ✓       | ✓     | ✓     | ✓     |
+| Pipeline       | ✓   | ×       | ✓     | ✓     | ✓     |
+
 *[ATS]: Apache Traffic Server
 *[LRU]: Last Recently Used