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Should You Use Payara Platform or Tomcat?

Tomcat is a web server primary designed for serving dynamic web pages and the Payara Platform is an application runtime designed for running custom applications.

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Tomcat vs. Payara Server

Feature Tomcat 10.1 Payara Server Enterprise 6.9.0

License

Open Source/Apache-2.0 Licensed

Open Source with EULA

Release frequency

Monthly

Monthly

Patch releases

Irregular

Irregular

Security fixes

Irregular but frequent

Instant emergency and backported fixes for Payara Enterprise customersAs soon as possible for community

Production support

Yes (Tomitribe)

Yes

Component Upgrades (e.g. Tyrus, Mojarra)

Monthly

Monthly

Supported IDEs

EclipseNetbeansIntelliJ IDEA

EclipseNetbeansIntelliJ IDEAVS Code

Caching tools

JCache

Hazelcast, JCache, Domain Data Grid, Payara Scales (additional cost)

Automatic Clustering

No, manual via Tomcat Cluster

Yes, (via Hazelcast)

Command line tool

Yes

Yes – Asadmin

Web Console

Yes

Almost all commands supported

Asadmin command recorder

No

Yes

Slow SQL logging

No

Yes

Healthcheck service

Healthcheck valve

Yes

Request tracing

No

Yes

Monitoring logging

No

Yes

Microservices distribution

No

Yes (Payara Micro)

MicroProfile support

No

MicroProfile 6.1

Docker support

Yes

Yes

Generate Uber JAR

Yes

Yes (Payara Micro only)

Production-tuned domain template

No

Yes

EE Standard

Jakarta EE 10

Jakarta EE 10

Jakarta EE Compatible

Yes

Yes

Upgrade Tool

Yes

 Yes

Runs on JDK 11

Yes

Yes (through Azul JVM)

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“Now, our engineering team is able to ignore performance maintenance and spend all their time building features.”

Brett Vasconcellos, CTO

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“Azul has a lot of involvement in OpenJDK, and have put a lot of really useful general information into this guide along with some details of the Azul specific version.”
Mark Stephens, IDR Solutions

“Real-time processing of transactions at Mastercard is not a nice to have, it is a must. And with credit card fraud running rampant, we have to be smarter and faster than the fraudster to protect our cardholders.”

Ted Boehm, Senior Technical Consultant

“Azul’s unique approach to application scalability is unmatched. With the Azul Java solution we saw tremendous improvements in application performance and response time consistency in our production website.”

Ron Cavallo, Director of Infrastructure, Saks Fifth Avenue

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