ALOHA - HAPEE - HAProxy comparison

Main differences

ALOHA Load Balancer is a commercial product; its application (layer 7) processing is based on the HAProxy open source program.

In order to answer frequent customer requests, you will find below a table summarizing the major differences between the HAProxy open-source version and the much more extensive features of ALOHA Load Balancer.

	HA Proxy on a generic system	HA Proxy on an extensively tuned system	HAPEE Starter	HAPEE Business Premium	ALOHA Load Balancer
Limitations
# backends	Unlimited
# Services	Unlimited
Performance
Bandwidth	< 1 Gbps	> 1Gbps	> 1Gbps	> 1Gbps	10 Gbps
HTTP requests / second	20K	100K	100K	100K	>200K
System/network tuning	Required	Required	Already optimized
High Performance SSL	Native SSL since v 1.5				Yes
Main features
HTTPS compatibility	Requires time and/or skills			Included
High availability	Requires time and/or skills		Included
IP routing/filtering	Requires time and/or skills				Included
Address translation	Requires time and/or skills				Included
Level 3/4 support	Requires time and/or skills				Included
SYN Flood protection	OS depend.	Requires time and/or skills			Included
Full IPv6 L7	No				Yes
Reverse Proxy mode	Yes
Transparent mode	Requires time and/or skills				Yes
Active FTP support	Requires time and/or skills				Yes
Session persistance synchronization in LB cluster	No				Yes
Administration
SNMP supervision/stats	Requires time and/or skills			Included
Configuration sync.	Requires time and/or skills				Yes
Certificate management	No				Yes
Web configuration interface	Requires time and/or skills				Included
Local log buffer	No				Included
Configuration API	No				Included
OS Maintenance	Required				Included
Support & Maintenance
Software/hardware warranty	No			Yes
Support	HA Proxy community only		Best effort	Yes, WW class

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