webworker和ajax,html - Ajax vs. Web sockets vs. Web Workers - Stack Overflow

They are not same. But one can use them together to build advanced application.

Ajax: As abbrevation States is asynchronous javascript and xml.. is used to load the content dynamically from the server upon called.

Websockets : Websockets is the feature defined in HTML5 . As wikipedia states "WebSocket is a protocol providing full-duplex communications channels over a single TCP connection." so this is mainly used for real time communication such as video call, live chat etc..

WebWorkers : this feature is also defined in HTML5. This is basically used to make bring multi threading feature in Javascript. Since javascript is a single threaded programming language , it breaks or pause whenever i.e heavy calculation tasks are done using it. to overcome this breakage , Webworkers are added to javascript.

You can perform Ajax and Websockets inside Webworkers . however you cannot manipulate DOM using webworkers due to security reasons.