GraalVM vs. Oracle Java SE Subscription

GraalVM

Oracle Java SE Subscription

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
GraalVM	Score 9.1 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 Subscription	Score 8.9 out of 10	N/A	Oracle Java SE Subscription combines license and support into a subscription to enable users to manage Java SE installations, updates and upgrades across the enterprise. The former Java SE Advanced, Java SE Advanced Desktop, and Java SE Suite products have transitioned to a Java SE Subscriptions. Beyond the unlicensed version, purchasers of Oracle Java SE Subscription receive all-hours access to My Oracle Support, enterprise monitoring, management, and deployment features, and early access to…	$2.50 per named user per month

Pricing

GraalVM

Oracle Java SE Subscription

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Oracle Java SE Desktop Subscription: $2.50
per named user per month
Oracle Java SE Subscription: $25
per core per month

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
GraalVM	Oracle Java SE Subscription
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

Optional

No setup fee

Additional Details

GraalVM Enterprise is an entitlement with Java SE Subscription at no additional cost.

Volume discounts also available.

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Community Pulse
	GraalVM	Oracle Java SE Subscription
Considered Both Products	GraalVM Ava Jakobs System Administrator Chose GraalVM The reason why we had to select GraalVM one is [a] cutting-edge compiling technique, GraalVM is well operated in the Environment of Open JDK, which speeds up the execution of Java programs. GraalVM makes creating packages and native apps simpler, and this improves distribution. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose GraalVM GraalVM is at the top when it comes to executing Java applications in terms of speed. With its amazing fast ahead of its time compiler it helps in reducing the startup time of the applications. Also, the overall performance of the product is increased and reduces the latency as … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose GraalVM We previously used the Java Virtual Machine common in the development market. In comparison, it is a solution that consumes a lot of computational resources. GraalVM is a solution that brings advantages such as less RAM usage and codes running natively. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose GraalVM Compiling to native code is probably the only reason for me so far. Incentivized Helpful? FL Feng Li Once to be architect and senior software engineer Chose GraalVM .NET Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose GraalVM .Net 4.5 has been very similar but I feel GraalVM is a lot better with features, efficiency, and user-friendly UI. This is especially important for our team. Incentivized Helpful? Sharique Khan Software Engineering Manager - Edge and Cloud Native Productline 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 Anonymous Chose GraalVM The main strength from my point of view is the usability and also the documentation which I really appreciate once it makes it easier to use and also faster. In another hand, the price can be something that you must check before choosing the proper tool once it's really … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose GraalVM GraalVM startup times and memory footprint is unbeatable. Polyglot capability provides greater flexibility and faster development times. Incentivized Helpful? Muni Raghunath Kalivi Sr. Technical Lead Chose GraalVM The packaging of GraalVM is completely different form the above-listed products, it is more like an integration platform. The out of box solutions for technologies like Java, and using with iOS native image is one of the examples. And easily used with Gradle and Maven build … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 Anonymous 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 Anonymous 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 Anonymous Chose GraalVM I have not used other products like GraalVM, and I was not in charge of evaluating other products. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 Anonymous 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 Anonymous 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 Anonymous 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 Anonymous 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? AK Ashutosh Khantwal Sr Software Developer 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? Lokesh Yadav Technology Analyst Chose GraalVM GraalVM is much better in terms of performance and speed. It also provides the multi-language support feature. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose GraalVM License was the main differentiation, not other reason to compare, based on our use case. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose GraalVM We used Azure App Service along with stream analytics both have their own pros and cons. GraalVM is better for Java native codes while Azure is for C# and .NET. Both are good, in a sense, but for our native apps GraalVM is better. We would like to see how it does in the long run. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose GraalVM Considered OpenJDK and OracleJDK. Our main point is still that we need a VM which starts the servers very quickly and GraalVM tops them all. Incentivized Helpful?	Oracle Java SE Subscription Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle Java SE Subscription It is one of the best softwares when a developer [wants] to start something from scratch. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle Java SE Subscription Apart from the Oracle Java SE Subscription Service, we have evaluated Scala as well. But the advantage of the Oracle SE subscription is that it provides other powerful tools as well at a very low monthly price and Java is one of the widely used programming languages and this … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle Java SE Subscription I chose the Oracle Java SE Subscription because of the low cost as compared to other products. Also, the performance of the product is quite powerful since it's written in Java which is a powerful language to be worked upon. Also, it has a strong community and the support staff … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle Java SE Subscription As Java has been developed by Oracle, you can rely on them being the best providers for support and implementation of Java across a large variety of systems. The support staff around the SE subscription have been exceptionally helpful throughout the entire process from … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle Java SE Subscription Scala relies on the JVM similar to Oracle Java SE Subscription. It has some very nice language features that Java has incorporated over the years. It is, however, a functional programming language that is a bit more obtuse and harder to pick up for those not familiar. This … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle Java SE Subscription Oracle Java SE Subscription lets you use Oracle JDK and also provides long-term support for all LTS versions of Java, especially for older versions such as Java 8. The security patches it provides are critical in today's IT landscape. OpenJDK is mostly comparable from a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle Java SE Subscription The software engineering team is having a great time with the Oracle Java SE Subscription service. The pricing is good but can be reduced further as well. But it offers amazing features and the support provided by the team is great and the staff is able to help very quickly. … Incentivized Helpful? Sonia Wagner Digital Strategist Chose Oracle Java SE Subscription Oracle Java SE Subscription ensures that all programs are executed according to plans, from my experience. The performance has proven to our organization that this is the best version for securing data and giving updates and optimization on time. We selected this tool due to … Incentivized Helpful? Gabrielle Conley Web Designer Chose Oracle Java SE Subscription I have had a great experience in Oracle Java SE Subscription. I have not had an opportunity to work with such a powerful tool. My experience has proven that this is the most powerful programming product and web application management tool. Incentivized Helpful? RE Ryan Evans Technical Support Engineer Chose Oracle Java SE Subscription NA Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle Java SE Subscription Promptness of customer support Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle Java SE Subscription It is more suitable and effective to opt for Oracle Java SE Subscription to receive enhanced support for your Java SE Applications. The support team is highly qualified and technically sound to manage your Java SE Applications properly. Also they are available 24*7 to make sure … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle Java SE Subscription Oracle Autonomous Database Incentivized Helpful? Vlad VARNA Principal Software Architect Chose Oracle Java SE Subscription For some advanced usage scenarios, like VM configuration for malware testing, writing custom java scripts worked best. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle Java SE Subscription I was a user of IntelliJ Idea previously but our organization was working on Oracle Java SE, so we had to understand this environment. But it was quite easy to use this, too, as user interface, ease of use is there and complexity is quite low, so users can work on this in no … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle Java SE Subscription Azul Zing might perform better for some use cases, but its advantage becomes much narrower in JDK 11. Operational cost is much higher for Azul Zing, also price is higher. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle Java SE Subscription Oracle Java SE Subscription and Firebase both have great development kits. Oracle has a much larger support base and backing, so it seemed like the smarter choice to invest in. Python IDLE had lower subscription fees. Again, Oracle is well known and seamlessly works with all of … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle Java SE Subscription We preferred Oracle due to our experience with other products and the positive impact we've seen from our prior use. Incentivized Helpful? 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	GraalVM	Oracle Java SE Subscription
Small Businesses	No answers on this topic	GraalVM Score 9.1 out of 10
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Enterprises	Oracle Java SE Score 8.7 out of 10	GraalVM Score 9.1 out of 10
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User Ratings
	GraalVM	Oracle Java SE Subscription
Likelihood to Recommend	9.1 (0 ratings)	8.6 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	7.7 (0 ratings)	9.4 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	GraalVM	Oracle Java SE Subscription
Likelihood to Recommend	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	[Oracle Java SE Subscription] has been highly beneficial as no additional trained resources needed to be allocated for managing and handling the Java SE applications. Also it has minimal operational cost. The support team of Java SE Subscriptions are always available 24*7, the applications are always up-to-date due to frequent update and patches Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Best performance of applications High efficiency of applications Reduced hardware requirements Lesser consumption of resources Universal support to multiple programming languages Reduced size of applications Creation of virtual images for testing on Android and iOS mobile operating systems Creation of native images Excellent support Documentations are detailed enough to learn and use easily Easy to use Incentivized Abdul Wahab Khan Project Manager Read full review	Collect in an inventory all versions of Java that have been used in different applications. Determine the status of old versions of Java and update or apply essential security patches. Oracle Support is the best to be able to solve problems in an agile and safe way. Fast update cycles to make new features available. Incentivized Moris Mendez Ing. de Sistemas Informaticos Read full review
Cons	It should be possible to use GraalVM EE to distribute native images of JavaFX applications for mobile platforms, especially for Apple platforms. Native Images are a game changer. However, compiling complex applications can be a pain. Better support for an improved transition process are a must. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	AMC Usage details hard to Decipher and Categorize AMC JRE Upgrades have very limited Scheduling of Deployments, should be more like SCCM. Where you know exactly when deployments are going out. Not just when the Agent decides to check in. Cost is WAY too high Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	It provides an affordable way to protect your investment. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	The support we received when porting legacy applications from the GraalVM team and community was commendable. We were able to get assistance in introducing alternatives for the libraries we were using where appropriate. GraalVM support was also able to help us with some configuration options we were stuck with for configuring deployment environments on AWS compute. Incentivized Ramindu Deshapriya Lead Consultant - Technology Read full review	As I mentioned before, quality of support from Oracle Java SE Subscription is extraordinary. The speed of resolution and the expertise of the staff is really appreciated. We raised a high priority support incident which blocked our process [and] Oracle Java SE support did a quick analysis and provided a solution which took less time than we expected. They also help us in installing patches and updates whenever required. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	The reason why we had to select GraalVM one is [a] cutting-edge compiling technique, GraalVM is well operated in the Environment of Open JDK, which speeds up the execution of Java programs. GraalVM makes creating packages and native apps simpler, and this improves distribution. It also brings native image support [that] makes compilation and distribution easy and effective. Incentivized Ava Jakobs System Administrator Read full review	As Java has been developed by Oracle, you can rely on them being the best providers for support and implementation of Java across a large variety of systems. The support staff around the SE subscription have been exceptionally helpful throughout the entire process from purchasing to post-installation support. The subscription itself gives you a strong development platform along with access to a variety of useful tools all of which are on par with other industry-standard systems. The simple UI and strong inter-connectivity with other Oracle systems far exceed what other providers are trying to provide. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Financial: Increased Java container count on the same hardware. Performance: Decreased cold start time for container startup. Training: Adopting GraalVM has a learning curve. This requires investment in time and resources. The benefits come through re-evaluating our current deployments for optimization. Incentivized John Hanley Enterprise Architect Read full review	Code portability allowed us to run the same code on all platforms Security is always a key issue especially in the world of increasing cybersecurity laws. It only makes sense to invest in a secure development environment Developers appreciate rich community support for java se platform Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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