Azul Platform Prime vs. Eclipse OpenJ9

Azul helped use reduce and more efficiently use our AWS EC2 resources. We approached them in Q3 of 2021 with the goal of reducing our overall latency on the JVM 8 platform. They managed to do that for us in such a way that we could expand our options within EC2 for machine architectures and take advantage of additional resources on existing infrastructure that OpenJDK could not at that time.

I'd recommend the platform for teams that are looking to focus on their business problems and not wanting to allocate engineering staff to be full time JVM engineers. I'd also recommend them for companies that have a large extant JVM systems that want a fairly easy way to optimize their current systems without entire rewrites.

The CLOUD development integrating web applications with web databases definitely needs a fast and memory-efficient platform like Eclipse OpenJ9. The garbage collector and SHARED CLASSES between processes make possible a fast response to the web client and API requests. Eclipse OpenJ9 needs better documentation to explain to the programmers the advantages over other JAVA implementations like HotSpot.

Incentivized

• Improved real-time JVM
• Cost effective
• product support

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• Faster startup
• Memory administration
• Shared CLASSES between processes

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• Support
• GC logging

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• Marketing to promote the advantages it provides for the CLOUD.
• Documentation to used its garbage collector effectively.
• Documentation to implement the SHARED CLASESS between processes and understand the advantages.

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Good features, Higher throughput, improved security

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Prime support has been responsive in helping us tune our JVM parameters and diagnose any lingering Java resource issues.

Oracle was costlier whereas OpenJDK had less frequent updates. Azul was average of both of them, so it was choosen.

Incentivized

IBM released the Eclipse OpenJ9 under the Eclipse Foundation and open source thinking about the need for CLOUD development efficiency. Eclipse OpenJ9 could be more suitable if want to develop an API with cloud databases like MariaDB using AWS. The memory management of Eclipse OpenJ9 makes the web performance of API faster. The capacity to run shared CLASSES in a memory partition between processes gives Eclipse OpenJ9 a design advantage over other JAVA SDK platforms.

Incentivized

• A lot of OPEX savings
• Easy annual license renewal subscription
• Standard product usage since it is compatible across different Operating Systems.

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• Open Source Alternative to Oracle JDK supported by IBM.
• Excellent performance for CLOUD development for APIs.
• Multiplatform (LInux, Windows) Java SDK that runs in a container like Docker.

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