Nova is a centrally managed, container-based ADC platform providing Layer 7 load balancing, GSLB, WAF and web acceleration. Nova is cloud-native, hyperscale and intelligent.
Software load balancing, web acceleration, WAF and global DNS load balancer. Blazing fast throughputs, high SSL TPS and runs on any cloud, VM or bare metal.
Compare Snapt Nova and Snapt Aria. You can even try them both for free.
General | Snapt Nova | Snapt Aria | F5 | KEMP | HAProxy | Nginx | ELB |
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Centralized Control Snapt Nova Cloud Controller (included) is a centralized control platform for deploying, configuring, monitoring and scaling your Nova ADCs. |
Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Run on any Cloud, VM, or Linux OS | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
Multi-Cloud Snapt Nova balances, protects, scales and monitors multiple clouds simultaneously. |
Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Container-Ready Snapt ADCs have native integration with Kubernetes, Docker and more, and support east-west load balancing between microservices. |
Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | - |
Autoscaling Snapt Nova autoscales natively, powered by the included Nova Cloud Controller. Snapt Aria has a full (free) EC2 API to allow autoscaling. |
Yes (native) | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes |
Resource Adjustable With Snapt ADCs you can add more compute resource to improve the performance. |
Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | - |
Capabilities | Snapt Nova | Snapt Aria | F5 | KEMP | HAProxy | Nginx | ELB |
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Rules/ACLs Full rules engine for routing and managing traffic. |
Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Partial |
Web Acceleration Full web rewriting, acceleration, minification and optimization. |
Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | No | Partial | No |
SSL Acceleration/Termination SSL termination, acceleration and re-encryption. |
Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
WAF Web Application Firewalling and DoS protection. |
Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
GSLB Global Server Load Balancer, included with Snapt. |
Yes | Yes | Paid | Paid | No | No | No |
Performance | Snapt Nova | Snapt Aria | F5 | KEMP | HAProxy | Nginx | ELB |
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HTTP RPS Full HTTP requests per second on mid-range VM. |
100,000 / node | 100,000 | 50,000 | 10,000 | 60,000 | 50,000 | Billed |
SSL TPS 2k SSL transactions per second on mid-range VM. |
10,000 / node | 10,000 | 900 | 200 | 6,000 | 5,000 | Billed |
Technologies | Snapt Nova | Snapt Aria | F5 | KEMP | HAProxy | Nginx | ELB |
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Load Balancing Methods Least connections, weighted, sourcehash, etc. |
Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Basic | Basic |
Health Checks Protocol aware, active checking. |
Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Partial | Yes |
Response Monitoring HTTP/S response observation and interception. |
Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Advanced Persistance Cookie insertion, ticketing, source IP, etc. |
Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Detailed Metrics/Reporting Layer 7 performance, latency, response metrics. |
Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Full API Native and complete product API. |
Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
Machine Learning and AI-enabled security Snapt Nova automatically profiles local land global traffic patterns to identify and defend against emerging threats and other anomalies. |
Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
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