Payara is one the best performing servers out there!
June 25, 2019

Payara is one the best performing servers out there!

Alexius Dionysius Diakogiannis, CSM | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Payara Server

It is currently being used by three clients to host spring boot applications. There are applications with both enterprise capabilities and simple websites and newsletters. It addresses the needs we had of being easy-to-use, lightweight, and very easy to configure through a console. These applications are hosted in VMs and Payara's small memory footprint without making any discounts in JEE capabilities is ideal for that environment.
  • Small memory footprint.
  • Fully JEE compliant with an exceptional administration console.
  • Very good performance.
  • It should provide out of the box support as an embedded server for spring boot applications.
  • Let's Encrypt certificates should be installed through the admin console.
  • A wizard-like procedure for clustering.
  • Positive: We can host more applications on a single VM.
  • Positive: We saved time on the server configuration procedure.
  • Positive: We saved time from migration from previous installations.
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 compliant server so it lacks capabilities and a proper administration console.
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.
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.
At the moment we have tested the installation in Windows, Linux, and Docker with several Java versions. Everything was smooth without any surprises. One of the easiest procedures we have performed.
Payara Server is recommended for any type of jee and/or Spring application. Unless there are proprietary framework restrictions there is no reason for not using Payara. The pricing model for enterprise support is very nice and I would definitely recommend it. The case where it is least recommended is when you need a separate application server per service. In this case, there might be better options for this job even though I am not very sure and need to test more.

Payara Server Feature Ratings

IDE support
10
Security management
10
Administration and management
10
Application server performance
10
Installation
10
Open-source standards compliance
10