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Azul Platform Prime vs. Oracle Java SE

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azul Platform Prime
Score 8.7 out of 10
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Azul Systems headquartered in Sunnyvale is exclusively focused on Java and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). They build fully supported, standards-compliant runtimes that help enable Java-based businesses. Their services include Azul Platform Prime (formerly Zing), a JVM with "better behavior" enabling sustained performance, fast warmup and predictable latency without GC pauses, jitter or application timeouts. Zing can be deployed in an on-prem data center or on the Cloud.N/A
Oracle Java SE
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Oracle Java SE is a programming language and gives customers enterprise features that minimize the costs of deployment and maintenance of their Java-based IT environment.N/A
Pricing
Azul Platform PrimeOracle Java SE
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Azul Platform PrimeOracle Java SE
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Azul Platform PrimeOracle Java SE
Considered Both Products
Azul Platform Prime
Kailas Andhale | TrustRadius Reviewer
Kailas Andhale
Software Engineer
Chose Azul Platform Prime
Oracle was costlier whereas Openjdk had less frequent updates. Azul was average of both of them, so it was choosen.
Oracle Java SE
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Anonymous
Chose Oracle Java SE
Java is highly more performant and with a very wide range of opensource libraries at hand, there is not much that you "cannot do" as long as you "do it right". Interpreted nature of Python doesn't let you do proper multicore/multithread operations, you could even say that …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Oracle Java SE
Code readability is greater in [Oracle Java SE]. Code refactor can be achieved in [Oracle Java SE], design patterns are used across the libraries and in use of it as well.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Oracle Java SE
Java is the backbone of Scala. Lots of the improvements of the newer version of Java have been based on the improvements Scala introduced (functional programming features, among others). In this way Java and Scala are very symbiotic.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Oracle Java SE
We also use C++ and Python in our application. We are working to migrate to a web-based application, but continue to invest in our Java client.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Oracle Java SE
Both platforms provide support for common programming languages such as PHP, Ruby, and Python. Java developers can also use languages such as Java, JavaScript, Clojure, Groovy, and Scala while .NET developers can code in C#, F#, VB.NET, C++, and .NET. The two platforms also …
Trang Nguyen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Trang Nguyen
Senior Test Engineer
Chose Oracle Java SE
We choose Java as our system has multiple sub-applications that have different purposes and architecture including back-end applications, front-end UI, front-end Rest API, and Selenium Automation tests. They are deployed in Windows and Linux, communicate with each other using …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Oracle Java SE
We had to stick with Java SE due to some of our other services being already written in Java. For the past couple months, we have been experimenting with Python and comparing its level of security and performance. From our experience, Python has fewer security capabilities, but …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Oracle Java SE
I like the platform independency.
Balázs Kiss | TrustRadius Reviewer
Balázs Kiss
Software Developer
Chose Oracle Java SE
I wanted to write Python, NodeJS, PHP... but it's hard to compare all the different fruits in the basket. Java is good for what it was made for, and much more nowadays. Java was and I suspect, will be a strong candidate for any backend project, and it's one of the most popular …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Oracle Java SE
Java vs Scala:
  • Less "cool."
  • More verbose.
Richard Stanley | TrustRadius Reviewer
Richard Stanley
Director of Digital Software Development
Chose Oracle Java SE
Java out of the box is lower cost traditionally. As time has evolved, c# is catching up.
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Ram Nair
Director
Chose Oracle Java SE
Oracle's Java is a uniform platform. It is widely used and universally accepted and is the defacto language. The majority of the industries from Banking, retail, healthcare, hardware, software, military, defense, and commercial, to the fashion industry use this language for …
Terra Lo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Terra Lo
Computer Scientist
Chose Oracle Java SE
We haven't really used any other products like Java. We have used python and C++ for other projects. Java is much simpler to use than C++, but probably not as simple as Python. Then again, Python is meant to be a scripting language, so when comparing to C++, Java is definitely …
Chose Oracle Java SE
Many other languages could be used for initial programming. However, simplicity of concepts, static type system and available tool support in combination made Java come out top for us. Especially Python has become very popular recently. I think this is a step backwards, due to …
AJ
Alex Jing
Software Engineer
Chose Oracle Java SE
Azul provides comparable services to Oracle Java SE. Compared to Oracle Java SE, support from Azul is more responsive and reachable. The downside is that the customer base of Azul system is much smaller compared to Oracle, so online resources are a little hard to search. But it …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Oracle Java SE
Basically, unless you use Electron with really flimsy documentation, Java is the better cross-platform tool to use.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Oracle Java SE
There are several alternative vendors of Java. They are almost all based on OpenJDK, so they are generally very similar. Levels of support vary, but they are more than worthy of consideration.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Oracle Java SE
I do not see the languages that I meant to add in the list. These are Python, R, C, C++, Perl, Jython and Javascript. I have experience in each of these and each has its pros and cons. I like R and Python for scientific analysis. C and C++ have good support for communicating …
Chose Oracle Java SE
Asp.net and Java both live in a similar solution space, however, Java tends to be the better option due to the larger amount of available resources for it. Node is an interesting tool. It is in a similar space as Java, but more focused on front-end web application development. …
Jean Georges Perrin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jean Georges Perrin
Senior Architect
Chose Oracle Java SE
Did not do a product comparison, but Oracle licensing may force some of my customers to get to other variations.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Oracle Java SE
Oracle is free to use and has many open source frameworks, tools and IDE's around it. That was the primary reason to choose Java SE.
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User Ratings
Azul Platform PrimeOracle Java SE
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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9.0
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Usability
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7.4
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Performance
9.1
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Support Rating
8.4
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8.0
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User Testimonials
Azul Platform PrimeOracle Java SE
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
Keith Sader | TrustRadius Reviewer
Keith Sader
Senior Manager, Ad Server
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Oracle Java SE is well suited to long-running applications (e.g. servers). Java Swing (UI toolkit) is now rather outdated, lacking support for modern UI features. JavaFX, the potential replacement for Swing, has now been separated out of Java core. Ideally, there would be a path to migrate a large application incrementally from Swing to JavaFX, but due to different threading models and other aspects, it is difficult. At this point, it is probably better to use an embedded web browser (e.g. JxBrowser) to provide a modern UI in HTML/Javascript and keep just the business logic in Java.
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Anonymous
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Pros
  • Improved real-time JVM
  • Cost effective
  • product support
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  • Since Java runs on a virtual machine, it's generally considered to be agnostic of the hardware it's running on. It allows for deployment across a mix of hardware setups with the same binary.
  • Lots of literature, third party libraries, support forums, and books have been devoted to Java in general, making it a great language to use to support the business.
  • Backwards compatibility has been an important strength of Java for us. Legacy code that isn't ready to be retired yet can still run on our newer setups despite using older versions of OJSE.
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Anonymous
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Cons
  • Support
  • GC logging
Kailas Andhale | TrustRadius Reviewer
Kailas Andhale
Software Engineer
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  • I would like to see more standardization on the convention level of good code practices in Java that could be promoted by Oracle
  • I would like to see a little more investment into JavaFX as with Graal VM there is a big potential
  • I would like to see more WebAssambly/WASM related features
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Anonymous
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Usability
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The language is fluent and has good support from a number of open source and commercial IDEs. Language features are added every 6 months, although long-term service releases are only available every 3 years. It would be nice if some of the older APIs were depreciated with more pressure to move to the new replacement APIs (e.g. File vs. Path), but transitions to new features are generally well implemented.
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Anonymous
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Performance
Good features, Higher throughput, improved security
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Sonali Rungta Sharda
Digital Communications Professional
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Support Rating
Prime support has been responsive in helping us tune our JVM parameters and diagnose any lingering Java resource issues.
Keith Sader | TrustRadius Reviewer
Keith Sader
Senior Manager, Ad Server
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Java is such a mature product at this point that there is little support from the vendor that is needed. Various sources on the internet, and especially StackOverflow, provide a wealth of knowledge and advice. Areas that may benefit from support is when dealing with complex multithreading issues and security libraries.
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Anonymous
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Alternatives Considered
Oracle was costlier whereas OpenJDK had less frequent updates. Azul was average of both of them, so it was choosen.
Kailas Andhale | TrustRadius Reviewer
Kailas Andhale
Software Engineer
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We choose Java as our system has multiple sub-applications that have different purposes and architecture including back-end applications, front-end UI, front-end Rest API, and Selenium Automation tests. They are deployed in Windows and Linux, communicate with each other using Rest API, RMI and Queue Message and need to support different deployment environment from Dev, Test, UAT to Production so using Java allows us to have a common standard from development, build and deployment for all applications.
Trang Nguyen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Trang Nguyen
Senior Test Engineer
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Return on Investment
  • 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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Anonymous
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  • We didn't need to spend more time and resources on developing apps for each OS. Our Java application worked perfectly on Linux, Mac, and Windows.
  • Our customers aren't fully satisfied with the performance of our application, specifically load up times.
  • We didn't need to purchase training courses for our software developers. Each of them were already well-versed in using Java SE.
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