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What is GraalVM?

GraalVM is a universal virtual machine for running applications written in JavaScript, Python, Ruby, R, JVM-based languages like Java, Scala, Groovy, Kotlin, Clojure, and LLVM-based languages such as C and C++. GraalVM removes the isolation between programming languages and enables interoperability…

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Fantastic Tool

9 out of 10
December 10, 2021
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GraalVM is a really powerful technology that is being used in certain departments of my organization. This allows us to pre-compile Java …
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Totally Worthy Tool

9 out of 10
October 18, 2021
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This is among the most robust and user-friendly applications that are being used in certain departments of our company. This is being used …
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Amazing GraalVM!

8 out of 10
April 25, 2021
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It's really good. We are using [it] throughout the entire department. It really helps us to connect and use it across multiple languages …
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What is GraalVM?

GraalVM is a universal virtual machine for running applications written in JavaScript, Python, Ruby, R, JVM-based languages like Java, Scala, Groovy, Kotlin, Clojure, and LLVM-based languages such as C and C++. GraalVM removes the isolation between programming languages and enables…

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What is GraalVM?

GraalVM is a runtime for microservices that aims to provide significant improvements in application performance and efficiency. The vendor states its ahead-of-time (AOT) compiler allows microservices to startup instantaneously with significantly smaller memory footprint.

It is a universal virtual machine for running applications written in JavaScript, Python, Ruby, R, JVM-based languages like Java, Scala, Groovy, Kotlin, Clojure, and LLVM-based languages such as C and C++. It removes the isolation between programming languages and enables interoperability in a shared runtime. It can run either standalone or in the context of OpenJDK, Node.js or Oracle Database.

GraalVM Community is available for free for any use.

GraalVM Enterprise provides additional performance, security, and scalability relevant for running applications in production. Users can get a version of GraalVM Enterprise that is free for evaluation and developing new applications via the Oracle Technology Network (OTN), or a commercially licensed version for production use via the Oracle Store.

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GraalVM Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
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Frequently Asked Questions

GraalVM is a universal virtual machine for running applications written in JavaScript, Python, Ruby, R, JVM-based languages like Java, Scala, Groovy, Kotlin, Clojure, and LLVM-based languages such as C and C++. GraalVM removes the isolation between programming languages and enables interoperability in a shared runtime. It can run either standalone or in the context of OpenJDK, Node.js or Oracle Database. Oracle's GraalVM Enterprise is a multilingual virtual machine, which Oracle states delivers even higher efficiency, better isolation and greater agility for enterprises in cloud and hybrid environment.

Azure App Service and Firebase are common alternatives for GraalVM.

Reviewers rate GraalVM Performance highest, with a score of 9.2.

The most common users of GraalVM are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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December 10, 2021

Fantastic Tool

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
GraalVM is a really powerful technology that is being used in certain departments of my organization. This allows us to pre-compile Java programs and helps us to speed up the processes by using minimal resources. This is highly maintainable and easy to use for Java developers. This helps us in deploying more container services with the same hardware.
  • Reduction of application size.
  • This supports Java 111.
  • Hardware requirements have reduced because of this.
  • Minimal consumption of resources.
  • Documentation needs to be improved and in a proper manner.
  • Support of Micro services needs to be enhanced.
  • Customer Support Service is not up to the mark.
This is a perfect fit for projects where Java or other Java technologies are already being used. This minimizes the latency resulting in efficiency and effectiveness. This is very well recommended if you are working with coding and deployment. It's not suited for you if it doesn't support the language that you are using in your organization.
Ava Jakobs | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
GraalVM is a high-performer runtime that provides significant improvements in application performance and efficiency which is a deal for microservices. [It's] designed for application writing in Java, JavaScript, LLVM-based languages such as C and C++. It helps to do away with isolation between programming languages and enables interoperability in a shared runtime. I love that it can run either standalone or in the context of OpenJDK,Node.js or Oracle Database.
  • Run Java Faster, GraalVM can run in the context of OpenJDK to make Java applications run faster with a new just-in-time compilation technology.
  • Make Application Extensible, GraalVM enables running JavaScript, R, Python, Ruby, LLVM IR, and Web Assembly in the context of Java Data Applications.
  • Create a Native Image, running [an] application inside a Java VM comes with startup and footprint costs.
  • Documentation is not that well detailed up to date.
  • The customer support is not always available.
Its well fit for the environment where applications are written in programming languages supported by GraalVM. It's [a] very powerful and reliable, high-performer Java Virtual Machine that provides the Java Development kit i.e JDK that has the ability to compile the Java apps ahead of time. Maintenance of this tool is simple and it [increases] the efficiency of the product since it requires few resources.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
An amazing tool that is being used in my organization to streamline Java Applications. Some of the departments are utilizing this to address the problems with the Interface of Native Java. This integrates easily with our existing applications and makes them convenient to use. This consumes [fewer] resources which makes our processes more efficient.
  • It is easily maintainable.
  • Requires minimal resources which results in low memory utilization.
  • Supports Java 11 for better performance.
  • Easily configurable.
  • No proper documentation present.
  • Few JDK versions are not supported currently.
  • Customer support is not at par with the industry standards.
This tool is particularly fit for those environments where your applications are written in programming languages supported by GraalVM. It's a wonderful tool [especially] for Java applications and reduces latency. As resource consumption is reduced, it makes everything much more efficient. Not recommended if your application's programming language is not supported by this.
Ojas Elawadhi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
GraalVM is being used in multiple departments of my organization by the dev teams. It is a high-performance tool that helps us to speed up the processes [while] consuming very few resources. It is easily maintainable and very flexible. This has seamless integration which makes our applications very efficient.
  • This supports Java 11.
  • This is very efficient tool.
  • Highly configurable and reusable environment.
  • Support and documentation could be improved.
  • Some of the JDK versions are not supported.
  • Microservices integration is needed.
This is very well suited for products where high performance and efficiency [are] needed preferably in real-time and consistent process requirements. As not all programming languages are supported so it's not suited for you at all if your language is not supported.
October 18, 2021

Totally Worthy Tool

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
This is among the most robust and user-friendly applications that are being used in certain departments of our company. This is being used to streamline the JAVA codes and test them as well. This has seamless integration with our existing applications which makes the usage very efficient. Also, the cost of deployment is comparatively less resulting in cost savings.
  • This supports Java 11 which results in better performance.
  • Most of the programming languages are supported in this like Java, R, Javascript.
  • The memory utilization is fairly very low.
  • Customer service is bit on the back side and improvement is needed.
  • Manual efforts are needed to make certain libraries work.
  • Micro services are not properly supported.
This is very well suited for someone looking for a high-performance environment. This supports a major variety of programming languages which helps to speed up the development time. Also, it helps to troubleshoot and resolve memory issues in addition to reducing the latency to make the process more efficient. This is not suited for the applications working on some programming language that is currently not supported by this.
April 25, 2021

Amazing GraalVM!

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's really good. We are using [it] throughout the entire department. It really helps us to connect and use it across multiple languages and libraries. Our departments find it easy [to] compile applications using it with native binaries for you programmers out there. I would highly recommend it. It's easy to use and intuitive.
  • Helps Team work
  • Increase Efficiency
  • Increase Effectiveness
  • It's is good and I don't currently see areas for improvement. Visuals are great too!
Good for Java development, compiling applications with native binaries, and helps increase our application throughput and reduce latency!! We use it on day to day basis as it seamlessly uses multiple languages and libraries. I like their advanced optimizing compiler that generates fast lean code which makes our team efficient with its speed.
Sharique Khan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
GraalVM is being used in selective teams as an alternate to traditional JVM. A primary usage is to optimize the application compilation using the ahead of time compilation feature. One more is usage of Truffle Language Implementation framework for other JVM-supported languages such as Groovy. All this has allowed us to reduce the startup time of mission-critical applications
  • Reduces the application startup time
  • Allows usage of multiple languages, such as Java and Scala in the same codebase
  • Improved performance in range of C++
  • Notarization of Mac OS 10.15
  • Better support and documentation for debugging and profiling
  • RXVT emulator bug
Specifically on mission-critical applications, as the startup time is an order of magnitude less than traditional Java JVM-based applications, GraalVM is a great choice. Also, for a polyglot team, you need a JVM solution to support engineers skilled and comfortable in multiple programming languages. Moreover, it makes profiling easy at the JVM level to troubleshoot memory issues.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using GraalVM in order to run some on-premises servers and to test part of our solutions. I'd say it's also a perfect tool to be used by Java developers. This tool usage made us reach a new step in terms of quality tests and brought us more options.
  • Multilingual
  • Speed
  • Usability
  • Still missing some languages (DEV)
  • Looks like they still having something being developed
If you want to have a cool VM, don't spend too much memory and mainly being multilanguage go ahead.
Be aware there are some points that can be improved like a couple of languages are not accepted so far.
Like used to, it's easy to use and you can find a lot of information regarding the tool so if you need to do something fast, it's a good choice.
John Hanley | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are in an investigative stage with GraalVM and AOT (native-compile) at the department level (software engineering and SecDevOps). We have deployed test applications written in Java and Scala to Windows, Ubuntu, and as Docker images running on container services (Google Cloud Run and Kubernetes).

At this point, I am very impressed. There was a learning curve to understand GraalVM, the polyglot features, and native-compiles. Pluralsight has a good fundamentals overview. The home site for GraalVM has a number of good "getting started" guides.

The areas that we are seeing major impacts in are software size, load time, and cold start time. These are critical benefits as we try to minimize the size of our containers and reduce cold-start time. The end result is more container services can be deployed with the same hardware. This could have a significant financial benefit over running code in a JVM.

We are also investigating the Polyglot features, such as running Node.js and Python in GraalVM. The ability to combine Java and Node.js could present some interesting features to combine the best of our libraries.

In my opinion, this product and technology will significantly improve the performance and footprint of Java-based containers to serverless containers, Kubernetes, and OpenShift.
  • Reducing software cold start time
  • AOT--Native compile, which removes the dependency on the JRE and JVM
  • Reduces application size. Combining native-compile and EXE compression significantly reduces the size of our containers
  • Native compiles. We have problems figuring out how to package jars with all dependencies for compilation. This might be our problem as we progress through the learning curve.
  • More support and testing for Sprint and GraalVM.
  • I recommend providing installer packages instead of downloading zip files.
In my opinion, GraalVM is an amazing technology for deploying containers. There are many benefits of integrating GraalVM into our development and deployment processes:
  1. Reduced application size.
  2. Faster cold start, which improves HTTP request/response-based software.
  3. Native compiles dramatically simplifies building and deploying Java-based containers.
  4. Native compiles often significantly improves application performance.
February 10, 2021

GraalVM is the future

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We used Graal in a technical spike to cut down the footprint of Java stand-alone services that ran on a scheduled basis. It was a great success and brought us savings in memory and CPU footprint and improved startup times. In the long run, this will reduce infrastructure costs and improve platform resilience.
  • Well documented
  • Easy to use
  • Excellent for micro services
  • Some limitations on technology, e.g. reflection, but can be mitigated.
Graal is excellent for micro-service deployments—the savings just add up each time you build a new service! It slots into a build and can build a native binary image nicely, that runs just as easily as a JAR file. The only case I can imagine it not being useful is if you really need to use dynamic class loading at runtime, but these are rare cases in most applications.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition is being used in our organization across our project among a team of 45 members. It has majorly addressed the performance of applications by reducing the overhead in terms of startup time, execution time, and memory utilization. It provides additional advantages in writing applications in various programming languages.
  • Application runs faster
  • Memory utilization is very low
  • Cost-effective
  • Not much improvement needed; the product suits our requirements.
GraalVM is very stable and has been very beneficial in terms of Project Delivery due to its advanced Virtual Machine providing JIT (just-in-time) compiler and AOT (ahead-of-time) compiler. So, I will definitely recommend it to others to try at least once in order to scale up the performance of polyglot applications.
August 13, 2020

GraalVM Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition has been used by our organization since 2019 across our Oracle department. GraalVM benefits us in writing an application that supports multiple programming languages resulting in accruing high performance and fast compilation. The developers were able to utilize the product to a greater extent and gain maximum advantage out of it.
  • AOT compilation - Java Code To Native Image
  • Minimal allocation of runtime memory
  • Application starts in no time
  • Works exceptionally well for Java applications, but more improvement is needed for non-Java applications.
GraalVM has improved and optimized the startup time of our applications to a great extent (sped up by 32% compared to our previous recorded time). This indeed has a major impact on our deliverable and client satisfaction. Also, we have observed a reduction in runtime memory utilization during the startup of our applications.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
GraalVM is an ecosystem with multiplicative value-add. Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition was used in my previous working department at the project level. By enabling interoperability and eliminating the gaps between various programming languages in a shared runtime and high-performance, GraalVM has proved to be very highly effective from the delivery perspective for all our developers.
  • Open source
  • Faster and efficient program execution.
  • Multilingual virtual machine.
  • No JMX, JFR support.
  • No thread dump or heap dump support.
  • Using bigger heaps can badly impact latency.
Due to its low memory footprint, GraalVM is extremely well suited where the amount of application code being executed is large and complex, loads a lot of control files, and has a lot of hot code. As it supports many languages, creating software with multiple languages is a big advantage and provides flexibility for developers.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
GraalVM is a production-ready software and is available as Community Edition for an open-source license.
Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition is being used in our department, and it has already proven to be highly beneficial and effective as it has been built to cater to enterprise-class application development on a global standard. It has shown significant improvements in application performance and efficiency due to its high-performance runtime.
  • Multilingual Virtual Machine
  • Run Programs Faster Anywhere
  • Compiling applications ahead-of-time (AOT) into native Executable
  • Can run either standalone or in the context of OpenJDK, Node.js or Oracle Database
  • Lower Memory Footprint
  • Compilation is not easy for all JVM code
GraalVM is well suited for JVM-based applications as it provides two independent execution modes:
1. Applications running in a regular just-in-time (JIT) compilation mode adding higher performance gains resulting from quality optimized algorithms.
2. Applications compiled ahead-of-time (AOT) into a native executable. It has the capability to run as a standalone application with instant startup having minimal memory footprint and minimal CPU utilization.
June 28, 2020

GraalVM Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
GraalVM is used in my organization for streamlining JAVA applications and efficient testing of code. It has provided faster startup and no interpreted code as well. It has given a low memory footprint in the use cases. Its native and bright future of performance is also a great advantage. No profiling data required now for JIT optimizations.
  • High performance and it acts as JIT compiler. Optimizations like partial escape help a lot since it is not available in standard JIT compilers.
  • It helps in combining JAVASCRIPT, Java, and R
  • Helps in running native languages on the JVM
  • Helps in extension of JVM-Based application
  • It is efficient for a smaller heap only as it impacts latency
  • Generated native code is not fully efficient
  • No thread dump and heap dump support
It can run spring applications, compiled with OPEN JDK or other JVMs. There's also spring framework support of GraalVM. Although it is at its initial stage, we can be hopeful that spring framework support does work and helps to improve using JAVA. This is a current limitation of GraalVM, but it can be overcome as per official information.
Lokesh Yadav | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
GraalVM is used for delivering services to many clients in our organization. It is very helpful as it has the capability to be embedded in the native applications as well as managed applications. Integrations are seamless with pre-defined formats for Oracle database, OpenJDK, MYSQL, and Node.js which makes the integration process very fast. It is also compatible with the latest Java 11 release, and it is very handy for developers, like me, who are frequently using the latest Java version to take the benefits of the latest features. Its compile time is very fast and has an optimized JIT compiler.
It is used to run the applications written in Kotlin, Python, Groovy, C++, and the interoperability is differentiated in the real-time shared runtime. We can also use the Native Image technology offered by GraalVM to compile the scripted applications well ahead of time before going into the binary code. The deployment and licensing costs approximately 25% less, reducing the overall cost.
  • Performance is better because of latest compatibility with Java 11
  • Standardized Software Development Kit and API design
  • Multi language support to offer best services to international clients
  • Supports all major programming languages
  • Uses low memory
  • Customer support can be improved
  • Needs to support more integrations with micro services
It is best suited for products and services where high performance is needed in real-time with no time lags.
With Oracle changing the JVM distribution license recently, GraalVM serves the purpose of managing the VM platform pretty efficiently. It is well suited for consistent process requirements. Since most of the companies depend heavily on Java for programming, GraalVM provides the best support for building Java applications and can be used for all products.
We can also mix programming languages in the same project, thus it removes the dependency of using a single programming language. This feature is provided by GraalVM and is known as "PolyGlot" apps.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use GraalVM for optimization for the code, making it portable and efficient for execution in high-performance requirements. Using it in some of the real-time and near real-time application scenarios where fast throughput is one of the key requirements from the business side. Optimizing compute resources to save IaaS cost and ingress and egress cost.
  • Fast and lean code
  • Multi-library support
  • Porting
  • Cloud integration
  • Development tool integration
  • More micro services support
GraalVM is an excellent tool in our case, where we were looking for a fast and scalable code for our native apps that support 10-thousand-plus sales and support teams in the branch, showrooms, field, and online. We rewrote the code using GraalVM to ensure that the end customer has a real-time offer on their purchase when we make a cross sale and up sale.
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