sawmill vs fast-geoip

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sawmill		fast-geoip
	Project
-	Mentions	3
110	Stars	210
0.9%	Growth	3.8%
4.2	Activity	0.0
2 months ago	Latest Commit	8 days ago
Java	Language	Python
Apache License 2.0	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

sawmill

Posts with mentions or reviews of sawmill. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

fast-geoip

Posts with mentions or reviews of fast-geoip. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

Free & accurate geoip package/service?
1 project | /r/node | 11 Apr 2023

Or use this: https://www.npmjs.com/package/fast-geoip -- it's updated periodically via CI, and they claim it is always up to date.
Express.js and Geo lookup
1 project | /r/node | 31 Mar 2022

There is also fast-geoip which focuses more on faster startuptimes while geoip-lite loads everyting into ram for quick lookups.
Curious about the best way to respect privacy in my app
1 project | /r/privacy | 27 May 2021

I'm using a CDN to host the app, and what I would like is running a lambda in front of the CDN that, before fetching the style JSON, finds the rough location of the user (using their IP address). The reason being two fold:

What are some alternatives?

When comparing sawmill and fast-geoip you can also consider the following projects:

Jolt - JSON to JSON transformation library written in Java.

pfelk - pfSense/OPNsense + Elastic Stack

JsonPath - Java JsonPath implementation

MaxMind-DB-Reader-php - PHP Reader for the MaxMind DB Database Format

JSLT - JSON query and transformation language

echoip - IP address lookup service

fastjson - FASTJSON 2.0.x has been released, faster and more secure, recommend you upgrade.

Th3inspector - Th3Inspector 🕵️ Best Tool For Information Gathering 🔎

MapNeat - MapNeat is a JVM library written in Kotlin that provides an easy to use DSL (Domain Specific Language) for transforming JSON to JSON, XML to JSON, POJO to JSON in a declarative way.

geoip2 - Python code for GeoIP2 webservice client and database reader

JsonSurfer - A streaming JsonPath processor in Java

GeoIP2-perl - Perl API for MaxMind's GeoIP2 web services and databases