HAProxy Features Comparison
Community and Enterprise, Virtual and Hardware appliances
Compare HAProxy Community and Enterprise to HAProxy ALOHA Virtual and Hardware Appliances
| Main Features | HAProxy Community |
HAProxy Enterprise |
HAProxy ALOHA Virtual |
HAProxy ALOHA Hardware |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| High Availability: VRRP | 3rd Party | |||
| High Availability: Route Health Injection | 3rd Party | |||
| IP Routing/Filtering | User + Operating System | User + Operating System | ||
| Layer 3/4 Load Balancing | ||||
| Layer 7 Application Delivery Controller | ||||
| SYN Flood Protection | 3rd Party | 3rd Party | Operating System | PacketShield |
| Reverse Proxy Mode | ||||
| Transparent Mode | User + HAProxy | User + HAProxy | ||
| Session Persistence Synchronization in Cluster |
| Modules | HAProxy Community |
HAProxy Enterprise |
HAProxy ALOHA Virtual |
HAProxy ALOHA Hardware |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dynamic Updates | ||||
| ACL | ||||
| Map Files | ||||
| TLS Ticket Keys | ||||
| 51Degrees Databases | ||||
| DeviceAtlas Databases | ||||
| WURFL Databases | ||||
| Maxmind Databases | ||||
| Device Detection | ||||
| 51Degrees | ||||
| DeviceAtlas | ||||
| ScientiaMobile/WURFL | ||||
| Geolocation | ||||
| DigitalElement/NetAcuity | ||||
| MaxMind | ||||
| Security | ||||
| Antibot | ||||
| Sanitize | ||||
| Fingerprint | ||||
| Web Application Firewall | ||||
| Single Sign-On | ||||
| reCAPTCHA | ||||
| Miscellaneous | ||||
| Send Metrics | ||||
| Response Body Injection | ||||
| Performance | HAProxy Community |
HAProxy Enterprise |
HAProxy ALOHA Virtual |
HAProxy ALOHA Hardware |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| System Tuning | User | Provided | Embedded | Embedded |
| Bandwidth | Dependent on hardware | Dependent on hardware | Dependent on hardware | 10 Gb/s |
| HTTP conn/s (no keep-alive) | Dependent on hardware | Dependent on hardware | Dependent on hardware | 64 000 (on ALB5200) |
| HTTP req/s (keep-alive) | Dependent on hardware | Dependent on hardware | Dependent on hardware | 200 000 |
| High Performance SSL | User + hardware + OpenSSL | User + hardware + OpenSSL | Hardware + embedded | Embedded |
| Limitations | HAProxy Community |
HAProxy Enterprise |
HAProxy ALOHA Virtual |
HAProxy ALOHA Hardware |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of Virtual Services | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Number of Server Farms | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Number of Servers in Farm | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Administration | HAProxy Community |
HAProxy Enterprise |
HAProxy ALOHA Virtual |
HAProxy ALOHA Hardware |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Integration with Configuration Management Systems (Consul, Puppet, Chef, etc) |
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| Advanced Socket Control (change backends, view stick table contents, get stats, etc) | ||||
| External Health Check Scripts | ||||
| Customizable and Scriptable | ||||
| SNMP Monitoring / Statistics | User | |||
| Configuration Synchronization | User | User | ||
| Web User Interface | ||||
| Syslog Server | User | Local Buffer | Local Buffer | |
| Real Time Dashboard |
| Maintenance | HAProxy Community |
HAProxy Enterprise |
HAProxy ALOHA Virtual |
HAProxy ALOHA Hardware |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hardware | User / 3rd Party | User / 3rd Party | User / 3rd Party | HAProxy Technologies |
| Operating System | User / 3rd Party | User / 3rd Party | HAProxy Technologies | HAProxy Technologies |
| HAProxy | HAProxy Community | HAProxy Technologies | HAProxy Technologies | HAProxy Technologies |
| Support | HAProxy Community |
HAProxy Enterprise |
HAProxy ALOHA Virtual Appliance |
HAProxy ALOHA Hardware Appliance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating System | User / 3rd Party | User / 3rd Party | HAProxy Technologies | HAProxy Technologies |
| HAProxy | HAProxy Community | HAProxy Technologies | HAProxy Technologies | HAProxy Technologies |
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