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.
"It is a stable solution compared to other vendors."
"Spring Boot could improve its integration with the major cloud providers. Connectivity with cloud solutions isn't easy compared to other frameworks like Django and Python."
"The most valuable feature of Spring Boot is the microservices and change information. Additionally, there are plenty of features."
"It is a stable solution."
"The most valuable features of Spring Boot include being able to check all the logs and doing health checks for applications. We can also do monitoring more quickly, and use Spring Boot for production support, so when production goes up or down, we can bring up the application very quickly through Spring Boot."
"It is a very scalable solution."
"Spring Boot's most valuable functionalities include inversion of control, dependency injection, and the ability to gather all services, models, and controllers together for easy connectivity to your REST API, as well as the ability to build a modular response and request system. It seamlessly integrates with various backends, such as SQL, events, and messaging systems, making it a user-friendly and efficient Java tool. Additionally, it functions as a reliable business transaction layer, providing excellent support for front-end and back-end visual tools."
"The most valuable feature of Spring Boot is it reduces the configuration needed. The configuration is handled by the solution. For example, if you're going to develop a web service, we needed to have a Tomcat web server and had to deploy the services and do tests. However, with Spring Boot, the default server comes with Spring Boot which reduces the task of doing all the configuration."
"It is stable."
"Its support documentation could have detailed information on database integration."
"This solution could be improved if there were more libraries available. We would also like more mobile platform functionality using low levels of code."
"The current state of Spring Boot's cloud layer requires further development, especially for collecting Java functions for cloud platforms like GCP Cloudground. Having to write every single API request in a single class can be a cumbersome and time-consuming task that is not ideal for Java developers. Additionally, having all API calls in one class and making it the main class presents problems with package visibility. Therefore, there is much room for improvement in the Spring Cloud area."
"Spring Boot can improve the dependency tree that we use for libraries. It would be helpful if it was less complex."
"If you want to have multiple integrations, the setup phase will become complex."
"The tool's documentation could be improved, especially by tying it back to frequently asked questions and issues users have. A feedback loop in which the documentation targets the most commonly asked user questions would make using the solution easier. Essentially, I want a more user-centered approach to documentation rather than a purely technical focus."
"The database connectivity could be better in terms of dealing with multi-tenant systems."
"We'd like them to develop more supporting testing."
"Having to restart the application to reload properties."
Open Liberty is ranked 7th in Java Frameworks with 1 review while Spring Boot is ranked 1st in Java Frameworks with 38 reviews. Open Liberty is rated 10.0, while Spring Boot is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Open Liberty writes "Scalable solution with efficient monitoring features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Spring Boot writes "It's highly scalable, secure, and provides all the enhanced tools I need. ". Open Liberty is most compared with Spring MVC, Amazon Corretto, Eclipse MicroProfile and Helidon, whereas Spring Boot is most compared with Jakarta EE, Apache Spark, Eclipse MicroProfile, Vert.x and Oracle Application Development Framework.
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