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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Akamai Edge DNS

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AAkamai Edge DNS is a managed DNS touting high availability and strong DDoS protection, deployable as a primary or secondary DNS solution.N/A

    Apache Tomcat

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/ATomcat is an open-source web server supported by Apache.N/A
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    Akamai Edge DNSApache Tomcat
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    Akamai Edge DNSApache Tomcat
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Akamai Edge DNSApache Tomcat
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Akamai Edge DNSApache Tomcat
    Application Servers
    Comparison of Application Servers features of Akamai Edge DNS and Apache Tomcat
    Feature
    Akamai Edge DNS
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    Ratings
    Apache Tomcat
    9.2
    24 Ratings
    15% above category average
    IDE support00 Ratings10.022 Ratings
    Security management00 Ratings9.024 Ratings
    Administration and management00 Ratings8.224 Ratings
    Application server performance00 Ratings8.124 Ratings
    Installation00 Ratings10.024 Ratings
    Open-source standards compliance00 Ratings10.024 Ratings
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    Akamai Edge DNSApache Tomcat
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    Score8.9 out of 10
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    Score8.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Akamai Edge DNSApache Tomcat
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (24 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
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    9.0
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    Support Rating
    -
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    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    8.0
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    Ease of integration
    -
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    9.0
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    Product Scalability
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    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    Akamai Edge DNSApache Tomcat
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Akamai
    Well suited when you have a high-turnover staffing model or can't get everyone trained on security best practices. Also well suited as a starting place for getting a zero-trust network up and running. A tool like Fast DNS gives you a web based portal to see traffic analysis, too, which for us was very important.
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    Apache
    Excellent value for companies wishing to host Java applications in the cloud. Utilizing hosting tools such as load balancers and network and application firewalls, Tomcat can be part of a powerful system to host web applications to thousands of users. There has been consistency in the development and support of Tomcat since its initial release in the late '90s and the best commonalities have been carried forward. If you host Java web applications, Tomcat is as good as any for an application server.
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    Pros
    Akamai
    • DDoS protection
    • Starting place for a zero-trust network
    • Protection for dns spoofing
    • Better protection for our remote employees
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    Apache
    • Fast to start up, which is useful when we need to just check that our changes are working correctly.
    • Free, which allows us to not be involved with the finance/legal team about using it.
    • Bundled with Spring Boot, which makes it even more convenient for our testing.
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    Cons
    Akamai
    • Many features and knowing which ones suit our business case
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    Apache
    • Using tomcat manager to troubleshoot is not very informative. Error messages are vague, you have to dig into log files for more information about the problems.
    • Is great for simple web applications, but may not work for heavy development which may require a full J2EE stack, might like JBoss better.
    • Security in tomcat is not straightforward, as I discovered that you have to understand how to set up realms in tomcat in order to hash passwords, which I was not overly familiar with, which is a big deal when setting up users in the tomcat-users.xml file.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Akamai
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    Apache
    We have a huge knowledge of the product within our company and we're satisfied with the performance.
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    Usability
    Akamai
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    Apache
    Tomcat has a very rich API set which allows us to implement our automation script to trigger the deployment, configure, stop and start Tomcat from the command line. In our projects, we embedded Tomcat in our Eclipse in all of the developer's machines so they could quickly verify their code with little effort, Azure Webapp has strong support for Tomcat so we could move our application to Azure cloud very easy. One drawback is Tomcat UI quite poorly features but we almost do not use it.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Akamai
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    Apache
    Tomcat doesn't have a built-in watchdog that ensures restart upon failure, so you have to provide it externally. A very good solution is java service wrapper. The community edition is able to restart Tomcat upon out of memories exceptions.
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    Performance
    Akamai
    No answers on this topic
    Apache
    Tomcat support to customize memory used and allow us to define the Connection pool and thread pool to increase system performance and availability, Tomcat server itself consume very little memory and almost no footprint. We use Tomcat in our production environment which has up to thousands of concurrent users and it is stable and provides a quick response.
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    Support Rating
    Akamai
    No answers on this topic
    Apache
    Well, in actuality, I have never needed support for Apache Tomcat since it is configured and ready-to-go with no configuration needed on my end.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Akamai
    Akamai wins hands down because of their distributed model (their worldwide CDN which is top notch). We've trusted them for other hosting and media distribution and it was a natural to use them for DNS. Feature wise, they are better, for our use cases, then either Google Cloud or Azure
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    Apache
    Eclipse Jetty is the best alternative for Apache Tomcat because which is also an open-source and lightweight servlet container like Tomcat. A major advantage of this over Tomcat is that Jetty server can easily be embedded with the source code of web applications. Since it requires less memory to operate, you may realize that it is very efficient.
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    Scalability
    Akamai
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    Apache
    It's very easy to add instances to an existing deployment and, using apache with mod proxy balancer, to scale up the serving farm
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    Return on Investment
    Akamai
    • Fast DNS is core to our protection model, so while is an IT budget line item, is used to protect the entire org.
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    Apache
    • Tomcat is cheap and very quick to deploy, so it has benefited much when situation needs applications to be deployed quickly without wasting time on licensing and installations.
    • Plenty of documentation available so no vendor training is required. Support contract is not needed as well.
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