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Martin vs Tegola
Tegola is an MIT-licensed Go vector tile server with built-in cache seeding and purging and prebuilt downloads, with styling and display handled by a separate client.
Martin vs pg_tileserv
pg_tileserv is a small Apache-2.0 Go server that turns PostGIS tables and functions into vector tiles, but it works only with PostGIS, not MBTiles or PMTiles.
Martin vs Protomaps
Protomaps serves maps from a single static PMTiles file with no tile server running, so you would drop the live PostGIS tile serving that Martin provides.
Martin vs Tippecanoe
A command-line tool that builds vector tilesets from large collections of GeoJSON features.
Martin vs TileServer GL
TileServer GL serves both vector and raster tiles and renders GL styles on the server with MapLibre GL Native, with Docker images available, while Martin serves vector tiles only.
Martin vs VersaTiles
A free, self-hostable stack for generating, serving and styling OpenStreetMap vector map tiles.
Martin vs GeoServer
GeoServer publishes spatial data through OGC-certified WMS, WFS, WCS and WMTS services, which covers more standards than Martin but takes more GIS knowledge to set up and run.