Payara Micro vs. Helidon
| Feature | Helidon 2 | Payara Micro Enterprise 5 |
|---|---|---|
| License | Apache License 2.0 | Open Source with EULA |
| Release Frequency | Regular | Monthly |
| Production Support | Yes (Only in combination with WebLogic or Coherence) | Yes |
| Standards Support | MicroProfile | Microprofile, Jakarta EE Web Profile |
| Support For | MP Reactive Messaging, MP GraphQL, gRPC, JPA | JBatch, Jakarta EE Concurrency, JMS client, Kafka connectivity |
| Supported IDEs | Eclipse / NetBeans / IntelliJ IDE / VSCode | Eclipse / NetBeans / IntelliJ IDE / VSCode |
| Designed For | Microservices | Microservices, general applications |
| Project Creation | Helidon CLI, Maven, and Gradle archetypes | Maven and Gradle archetypes |
| Clustering | None | Automatic clustering in many environments including bare metal and Kubernetes |
| Configuration | YAML file | Asadmin commands |
| Request Tracing | Jersey, MicroProfile OpenTracing | MicroProfile OpenTracing, Servlet, CDI |
| Tracing Tools | Jaeger, OpenZipkin | Jaeger, OpenZipkin |
| Notifiers | None | Log files, SMTP, SNMP, CDI, Slack, New Relic, Datadog |
| Supported JVMs | JDK 11+, Graal VM Native compilation | Support and security updates for Java 7,8,11 and beyond; ARM-based JVMs |
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“Having commercial support from Payara, who own the codebase, really takes open-source to the next level. They validated our configuration, made recommendations for improvement, and gave us confidence we were getting the most out of the product and making the best decisions from the start.”
Neil Openshaw
Senior Manager
Software Engineering
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Senior Associate Software Developer
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Project Leader
“’Using Payara Enterprise support enables us to get our APIs more stable and we feel more confident in the service we provide to our customers”
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IT Infrastructure and Security Manager at DPD
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