We compared Spring Boot and Open Liberty based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
In summary, Spring Boot is praised for its simplicity, flexible integration options, efficient customer service, cost-effectiveness, and positive ROI. On the other hand, Open Liberty is known for its strong performance, extensive documentation, exceptional customer service, affordability, and positive ROI. Spring Boot could improve in performance, documentation, and ease of use, while Open Liberty could enhance performance optimization and resource consumption.
Features: Spring Boot is favored for its simplicity, ease of use, flexibility, and rapid application development capabilities. In contrast, Open Liberty is highly valued for its strong performance, reliability, extensive documentation, and helpful community support.
Pricing and ROI: Spring Boot is known for its cost-effectiveness and reasonable pricing options, with a straightforward and hassle-free setup process. It offers flexibility in licensing options. On the other hand, Open Liberty is also affordable and easy to set up, with a favorable licensing structure., Spring Boot users have praised the product for its increased efficiency, reduced development time, improved performance, and enhanced productivity. Open Liberty users also experienced positive ROI by saving costs and receiving extensive support.
Room for Improvement: Spring Boot could benefit from improvements in performance, documentation, and ease of use. Error handling and compatibility with certain frameworks or features could also be improved. Users have mentioned the need for more efficient resource management and smoother integration with external components. Open Liberty requires enhancements in optimizing performance and resource consumption. Better memory footprint and streamlined memory management are suggested. Improving startup times and reducing deployment overhead are also important.
Deployment and customer support: The user reviews for Spring Boot and Open Liberty show that the duration required for establishing a new tech solution, including deployment, setup, and implementation phases, can vary. Some users of Spring Boot mentioned completing deployment and setup within the same week, while others took three months for deployment and an additional week for setup. Open Liberty users also had varied experiences, with some taking three months for deployment and a week for setup, while others needed only one week for both. It is important to consider the context in which these terms are used to accurately evaluate the duration needed for implementing these solutions., In terms of customer service, users have praised both Spring Boot and Open Liberty for their responsiveness and helpfulness. Customers appreciate the efficient and knowledgeable support from both teams. However, Open Liberty's customer service is often commended for going above and beyond to address concerns and provide prompt solutions.
The summary above is based on 31 interviews we conducted recently with Spring Boot and Open Liberty users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
Open Liberty is built on a foundation of Java EE and Eclipse Microprofile and lets you run only the features your app needs.
In addition to support for the open source Open Liberty runtime, Open Liberty Support also includes support for Java EE, Eclipse Microprofile, and Eclipse OpenJ9 JVM when used with Open Liberty.
Support for Open Liberty gives you 24x7x364 access to IBM’s world-class support and the development team that created Open Liberty.
Open Liberty is the most flexible server runtime available to Java developers. Work at lightspeed in a lightweight environment and build cloud-native Java apps and microservices.
Spring Boot is a tool that makes developing web applications and microservices with the Java Spring Framework faster and easier, with minimal configuration and setup. By using Spring Boot, you avoid all the manual writing of boilerplate code, annotations, and complex XML configurations. Spring Boot integrates easily with other Spring products and can connect with multiple databases.
How Spring Boot improves Spring Framework
Java Spring Framework is a popular, open-source framework for creating standalone applications that run on the Java Virtual Machine.
Although the Spring Framework is powerful, it still takes significant time and knowledge to configure, set up, and deploy Spring applications. Spring Boot is designed to get developers up and running as quickly as possible, with minimal configuration of Spring Framework with three important capabilities.
Reviews from Real Users
Spring Boot stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its flexible integration options and its autoconfiguration feature, which allows users to start developing applications in a minimal amount of time.
A system analyst and team lead at a tech services company writes, “Spring Boot has a very lightweight framework, and you can develop projects within a short time. It's open-source and customizable. It's easy to control, has a very interesting deployment policy, and a very interesting testing policy. It's sophisticated. For data analysis and data mining, you can use a custom API and integrate your application. That's an advanced feature. For data managing and other things, you can get that custom from a third-party API. That is also a free license.”
Randy M., A CEO at Modal Technologies Corporation, writes, “I have found the starter solutions valuable, as well as integration with other products. Spring Security facilitates the handling of standard security measures. The Spring Boot annotations make it easy to handle routing for microservices and to access request and response objects. Other annotations included with Spring Boot enable move away from XML configuration.”
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