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Tengine

High-performance web server and reverse proxy based on nginx, originated by Taobao, with added features for high-traffic websites.

Tengine is a web server and reverse proxy based on nginx, and its documentation says most configuration options match nginx’s. It is built from C source with configure and make, and each release also comes as RPM, Debian and Alpine packages and as a container image.

Identity

Status
Active
Maintainer
Alibaba Group Holding Limited4
Maintained by
Company
First release
20117

Rendering and deploy

Runs as
Always on5
Install with
source build (./configure, make, make install)5

Releases

Current major version
36
Last release
2023-11-067

Adoption

GitHub stars
13,4128
Contributors
979

Why these figures do not compare

Sources

  1. 2026-10-30: name, links, Built on, License model
    tengine.taobao.org/
  2. 2026-10-30: links, Written in
    github.com/alibaba/tengine
  3. 2026-10-30: links
    tengine.taobao.org/documentation.html
  4. 2026-10-30: Maintainer, License
    github.com/alibaba/tengine/blob/master/LICENSE
  5. 2026-10-30: Categories, Runtime, Runs as, Install with
    github.com/alibaba/tengine/blob/master/README.markdown
  6. 2026-10-30: Current major version
    github.com/alibaba/tengine/releases/tag/3.1.0
  7. 2026-10-30: Last release, First release
    tengine.taobao.org/changelog.html
  8. 2026-10-30: GitHub stars
    api.github.com/repos/alibaba/tengine
  9. 2026-10-30: Contributors
    api.github.com/repos/alibaba/tengine/contributors?per_page=1

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