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Check out this side-by-side comparison of popular features and use cases.
| Features | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Load balancer | |||
| HTTP and TCP/UDP support | |||
| Layer 7 request routing | |||
| Session persistence | |||
| Active health checks | |||
| DNS service‑discovery integration | |||
| Content cache | |||
| Static and dynamic content caching | |||
| Cache‑purging API | |||
| Web server and reverse proxy | |||
| Origin server for static content | |||
| Reverse proxy: HTTP, FastCGI, memcached, SCGI, uwsgi | |||
| HTTP/2 gateway | |||
| gRPC proxy | |||
| HTTP/2 server push | |||
| Security controls | |||
| HTTP Basic Authentication | |||
| HTTP authentication subrequests | |||
| IP address‑based access control lists | |||
| Rate limiting | |||
| Dual‑stack RSA/ECC SSL/TLS offload | |||
| TLS 1.3 support | |||
| JWT authentication | |||
| OpenID Connect single sign‑on (SSO) | |||
| NGINX App Protect (additional cost) | |||
| Monitoring | |||
| Export to external monitoring tools | |||
| Built-in dashboard | |||
| Extended status with 100+ additional metrics | |||
| High availability (HA) | |||
| Active‑active | |||
| Active‑passive | |||
| Configuration synchronization across cluster | |||
| State sharing: sticky‑learn session persistence, rate limiting, key‑value stores | |||
| Programmability | |||
| NGINX JavaScript module | |||
| NGINX Plus API for dynamic reconfiguration | |||
| Key‑value store | |||
| Dynamic reconfiguration without process reloads | |||
| Streaming media | |||
| Live streaming: RTMP, HLS, DASH | |||
| VOD: Flash (FLV), MP4 | |||
| Adaptive bitrate VOD: HLS, HDS | |||
| MP4 bandwidth controls | |||
| Third-party ecosystem | |||
| Ingress controller | |||
| OpenShift Router | |||
| Dynamic modules repository | |||
| Deployable as a service | |||
| Commercial support |
