GraalVM vs. Oracle Java SE

GraalVM

99 Reviews and Ratings

Oracle Java SE

256 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
GraalVM	Score9.1 out of 10	N/A	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…	N/A
Oracle Java SE	Score8.8 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

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GraalVM

Oracle Java SE

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Pricing Offerings
GraalVM	Oracle Java SE
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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GraalVM Enterprise is an entitlement with Java SE Subscription at no additional cost.

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	GraalVM	Oracle Java SE
Considered Both Products	Oracle Verified User Chose GraalVM Compiling to native code is probably the only reason for me so far. Incentivized Helpful? Sharique Khan Software Engineering Manager - Edge and Cloud Native Productline in Engineering at Varian Medical Systems (Hospital & Health Care, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose GraalVM GraalVM provides a solution with better customer support and better technical solutions for application compilation and runtime. It's faster cold startup time aids mission-critical applications and helps the overall suite of applications. With this we can use multiple … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose GraalVM GraalVM startup times and memory footprint is unbeatable. Polyglot capability provides greater flexibility and faster development times. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose GraalVM GraalVM allowed language interoperability compared to the other two. Corretto is no better than the default HotSpot JVM in our case and is also lacking in modern versions. Oracle Java has JDK 15 but it doesn't have language interoperability or AOT. GraalVM just hit that nice … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose GraalVM GraalVM allows for better language interop between languages compared to JNI, and also supports other languages for scripting like Python, Ruby and others. This means seemless modding capability compared to the normal JDK and other things. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose GraalVM Oracle GraalVM has been selected due to its ability to perform ahead-of time compilation by compiling JAVA code to native image which helps in scaling up the performance of the application startup and execution time, thus consuming low memory and CPU cycles. Also, supporting … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose GraalVM GraalVM by far has proved to be the most reliable and advanced virtual machine supporting dual compilation (Static as well as Dynamic). Java Code is compiled by an ahead-of-time compiler to a native image that supports JVM based languages (Java, Scala, etc.) as well as other … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose GraalVM We have opted for GraalVM due to its ability to integrate and interoperability with major languages (such as Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, LLVM based languages like C and C++, and several other dynamic languages) popular in the IT industry. Due to its compatibility with Java … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose GraalVM The advantages of GraalVM over other products are as follows: 1. All the languages share the same VM and its capabilities. Provides language-independent tooling interoperability optimization. 2. It has a very reduced memory footprint. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose GraalVM Points in support of GraalVM over other products are as follows: GraalVM compiler behaving as a JIT compiler for Java, which supports both Static and Dynamic Compilation GraalVM native image that allows the ahead-of-time compile Java Program to a standalone executable called a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose GraalVM GraalVM has the ability to compile Java applications ahead of time into a native binary. This will result in instant startup of the application and consuming significantly less memory compared to traditional JIT (Just in Time) compilation setup. Though JIT is preferable for … Incentivized Helpful? Ashutosh Khantwal Sr Software Developer in Engineering at Wipro Limited (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose GraalVM GraalVM can run faster than the traditionally used Java SE. Companies like Twitter are using GraalVM as against using JAVA SE to scale up their production values and save money. It has a Graal compiler and polyglot feature missing in Java SE, which is a mix and match of … Incentivized Helpful?	Oracle No answer on this topic
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User Ratings
	GraalVM	Oracle Java SE
Likelihood to Recommend	9.1 (36 ratings)	9.0 (32 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	7.4 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	7.7 (29 ratings)	8.0 (19 ratings)