Oracle GlassFish Server vs. Payara Server

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Oracle GlassFish Server
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Oracle GlassFish Server was originally developed by Sun Microsystems and is available open source or supported by Oracle. It is an application server.N/A
Payara Server
Score 9.1 out of 10
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Payara Server is a fully supported, developer-friendly, open source application server. The vendor says Payara Server’s architecture is innovative, cloud-native and optimized for production deployments. The application server is built and supported by a team of DevOps engineers dedicated to the continued development and maintenance of the open source software and committed to optimizing Payara Server for production Java EE applications. Key features of Payara Server include: •…N/A
Pricing
Oracle GlassFish ServerPayara Server
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Oracle GlassFish ServerPayara Server
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Oracle GlassFish ServerPayara Server
Considered Both Products
Oracle GlassFish Server

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Payara Server
Chose Payara Server
Although Payara Server originated from Oracle Glassfish, Payara does bug fixing a lot quicker and provides "versions on steroids" of the server with improvements and targeted versions. Tomcat is very fast and has a small footprint but unfortunately, it if not a fully JEE …
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Features
Oracle GlassFish ServerPayara Server
Application Servers
Comparison of Application Servers features of Product A and Product B
Oracle GlassFish Server
8.8
3 Ratings
10% above category average
Payara Server
7.5
2 Ratings
6% below category average
IDE support9.03 Ratings6.02 Ratings
Security management9.03 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Administration and management8.03 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Application server performance10.03 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Installation7.03 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Open-source standards compliance9.82 Ratings8.02 Ratings
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User Ratings
Oracle GlassFish ServerPayara Server
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(3 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
Usability
-
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10.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
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10.0
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Ease of integration
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User Testimonials
Oracle GlassFish ServerPayara Server
Likelihood to Recommend
Oracle
Glassfish is well suited for large-scale cluster deployments and integrates well with F5 load balancers.
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Payara Services
- If the application is very large then the Payara server is suitable and in the case of a small application, we can choose Micro Payara. - Micro payara is very well suited for microservice architecture. - Fully Jakarta compliance. - Very good performance.
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Pros
Oracle
  • The product offers Java EE support.
  • As the version supported by Oracle we have an extensive documentation, the Oracle GlassFish server online documentation library, patches ,and support from the supplier.
  • Ease of use through the administration console.
  • Integration with the NetBeans development interface.
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Payara Services
  • Small memory footprint.
  • Fully JEE compliant with an exceptional administration console.
  • Very good performance.
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Cons
Oracle
  • One of the areas where we found Glassfish adaptation difficult for our company was the lack of documentation and community forums covering important issues.
  • We ran into a roadblock with OAuth 2.0 implementation and did not get great support on that issue.
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Payara Services
  • Issues that are logged in Payara GitHub forum need to address on time, but it keeps on postponing fixing those issues.
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Usability
Oracle
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Payara Services
As mentioned before it has an amazing configuration console. You can practically do anything from there and even update the program or install new features on the fly.
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Performance
Oracle
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Payara Services
As mentioned before, its performance capabilities were one of the reasons we used them. It interacts with mass mail software and we see no performance impact. It handles everything pretty well and pretty fast.
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Alternatives Considered
Oracle
At the time we did a small proof of concept with both platforms and Oracle Glassfish had more intuitive administration and configuration functions
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Payara Services
- As I said before, Payara has full Jakarta compliance and provide up-to-date technology stack upgrade. - Easy to install and upgrade. - Very less configuration setting. - Default ready-to-use production domain is available, which can be spun up to use in production.
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Return on Investment
Oracle
  • Glassfish which initially spun off from an Open Source project has a community edition which is free to use and offers great ROI.
  • In comparison to cloud offerings like AWS and Google App Engine, Glassfish requires more cost upfront for installation and management.
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Payara Services
  • Can host multiple application on single VM.
  • Helps managed service team reduces their time on installation and up-gradation ( upgrading it to a new Payara server is very simple).
  • We can opt for Payara or Micro Payara based on the application size.
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