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TomEE x Azul Payara Server

Comparison

Feature TomEE 9 Payara® Server Enterprise 6.9.0

License

Proprietary

Open Source

Release frequency

Irregular (about 2 a year)

Monthly

Patch releases

Irregular

Irregular

Security fixes

Infrequent

Instant emergency and backported fixes for Payara Enterprise customers. As soon as possible for community.

Production Support

Yes (Tomitribe)

Yes

Component Upgrades

Irregular

Monthly

Supported IDEs

Eclipse® / Netbeans® / IntelliJ® IDE

Eclipse® / Netbeans® / IntelliJ® IDE / VS 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

Apache TomEE-CLI

Apache TomEE-CLI

Web Console

Basic (From Tomcat)

Almost all commands supported

Admin Command Recording

No

Yes

Slow SQL Logging

No

Yes

Health Check Service

Yes

Yes

Request Tracing

No

Yes

Monitoring logging

No

Yes

Microservices Distribution

Yes, TomEE MicroProfile

Yes (Payara Micro)

MicroProfile Support

MicroProfile 5

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 9

Jakarta EE 10

Jakarta EE Compatible

Yes

Yes

Upgrade Tool

Yes

Yes

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“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

The time our engineers used to spend on Java issues is now going into building product.

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