HAProxy Features Comparison
Community and Enterprise, Virtual and Hardware appliances
Compare HAProxy Community and Enterprise to ALOHA Virtual and Hardware Appliances
| Main Features | HAPROXY Community |
HAPROXY Enterprise |
ALOHA Virtual |
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 |
ALOHA Virtual |
ALOHA Hardware |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Update Module (LB and TLS) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Antibot Module | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Sanitize Module | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Fingerprint Module | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| WAF Module | ✔ | |||
| Single Sign-On Module | ✔ | |||
| reCAPTCHA | ✔ |
| Performance | HAPROXY Community |
HAPROXY Enterprise |
ALOHA Virtual |
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 ALB5100) |
| 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 |
ALOHA Virtual |
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 |
ALOHA Virtual |
ALOHA Hardware |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Integration with configuration management systems (Consul, Puppet, Chef, etc) |
✔ | ✔ | ||
| 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 |
ALOHA Virtual |
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 |
ALOHA Virtual Appliance |
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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