Interior point methods (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interior-point_method) are generally superior to active-set methods (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active-set_method) for solving large-scale problems.
You usually end up solving a convexified equality-constrained problem, that is a system of nonlinear equations. That's the most favorable case.
Among active-set methods, SLQP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequential_linear-quadratic_programming) is of particular interest. It also forms an equality-constrained quadratic problem (the favorable case) after it approximated the set of active inequality constraints by solving a linear problem.