Payara Server Reviews & Insights

Score9 out of 10

4 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Payara Server are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Scalability: Many users have praised Payara Server for its scalability, stating that it efficiently handles increased workloads and high traffic demands. This feature allows businesses to easily scale their applications as needed without compromising performance.

Active Contribution to Technology Ecosystem: Payara's active contribution to their own technologies and the ecosystem has been highly regarded by users. This demonstrates their commitment to continuously improving their application server and staying up-to-date with industry standards, providing customers with cutting-edge technology.

Ease of Use and Integration: Users have found Payara easy to set up and start, integrating well with popular tools like IntelliJ and Docker. The user-friendly interface further enhances the experience, making it straightforward for developers to navigate and manage their applications.

Reviews

2 Reviews

High performance payara server with great features

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

June 10, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

- Initially we were using Glassfish then we migrated to Payara community edition.
- We have hosted the application on payara prod and used it by our 200+ customers.
- Our application products are used by Universities and colleges in the USA.
- Even we are using Micro Payara for a few of our small size applications.
- It has very good support and addresses the outstanding issues.
- It has very good features and up-to-date technology stack updates.

Pros

Automatic Clustering
Admin console UI (user friendly to access the Payara admin console).
Micro Payara helps in addressing the micro service architecture.
Regular updates include the technology stack updates (Jakarta, other security issues).

Cons

Issues that are logged in Payara GitHub forum need to address on time, but it keeps on postponing fixing those issues.

Likelihood to Recommend

- If the application is very large then the Payara server is suitable and in the case of a small application, we can choose Micro Payara.
- Micro payara is very well suited for microservice architecture.
- Fully Jakarta compliance.
- Very good performance.

Mohammed Sameen

Technical Lead in Information Technology at Encora Inc. (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

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Payara is one the best performing servers out there!

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

June 25, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

Small memory footprint.
Fully JEE compliant with an exceptional administration console.
Very good performance.

Cons

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Alexius Dionysius Diakogiannis, CSM

Software Architect / Consultant in Information Technology at FMW Cyprus (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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