Payara Micro vs. Quarkus

FeatureQuarkus 2.0Payara Micro Enterprise 5
LicenseApache License 2.0Open Source with EULA
Release FrequencyRegularMonthly
Production SupportYes (Only in combination with OpenShift or Enterprise Linux subscriptions)Yes
Standards SupportMicroProfileMicroProfile, Jakarta EE Web Profile
Support ForVert.x, MP Reactive Messaging, MP GraphQL, JPA, JMS ClientJBatch, Jakarta EE Concurrency, JMS client, Kafka connectivity
Designed ForKubernetesMicroservices, Kubernetes, general applications
Project CreationMaven archetypeMaven and Gradle archetypes
ClusteringAvailable through Infinispan integrationAutomatic clustering in many environments including bare metal and Kubernetes
Request TracingMicroProfile OpenTracingMicroProfile OpenTracing Servlet, CDI
Tracing ToolsJaeger, OpenZipkinJaeger, OpenZipkin
NotifiersNoneLog files, SMTP, SNMP, CDI, Slack, New Relic, Datadog, Discord, Teams, Java Flight Recorder, XMPP
Supported JVMsJDK 11+, Graal VM Native compilationSupport and security updates for Java 7, 8, 11 and beyond; and ARM-based JVMs

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