Apache Tomcat vs. IBM WebSphere
A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.
| Metric | Apache Tomcat | IBM WebSphere |
|---|---|---|
| Overall rating | 4.5 | 4.1 |
| Review count | 128 | 159 |
| Ease of use | 9.1 | 8.2 |
| Ease of setup | 9.0 | 7.9 |
| Quality of support | 8.3 | 8.6 |
| Meets requirements | 9.2 | 8.9 |
| NPS | 66.4 | 41.134752 |
| Small Business | 21.1% | 8.8% |
| Mid-Market | 35.2% | 25.8% |
| Enterprise | 43.8% | 65.4% |
| Total page views | 355 | 206 |
| Total LLM citations | 511 | 421 |
Apache Tomcat
Apache Tomcat is an open-source implementation of the Jakarta EE platform's core specifications, including Jakarta Servlet, Jakarta Pages, Jakarta Expression Language, Jakarta WebSocket, Jakarta Annotations, and Jakarta Authentication. Developed and maintained by the Apache Software Foundation, Tomcat provides a "pure Java" HTTP web server environment for running Java code, making it a robust and reliable solution for deploying Java-based web applications.
IBM WebSphere
IBM WebSphere Liberty and Application Server (WAS) are part of JSphere Suite for Java, a portfolio of products including application runtimes, modernization tooling, and developer productivity IDE extensions that enable you to rapidly modernize enterprise Java applications and create new cloud-native applications, with support for on-premise and major public cloud deployments; in virtual machines, containers and Kubernetes.