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Eclipse MicroProfile vs Spring Boot comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Apr 20, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

Eclipse MicroProfile
Ranking in Java Frameworks
6th
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Spring Boot
Ranking in Java Frameworks
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
38
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Java Frameworks category, the mindshare of Eclipse MicroProfile is 6.4%, down from 8.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Spring Boot is 41.6%, down from 43.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Q&A Highlights

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Nov 25, 2021
 

Featured Reviews

Idris Oyibo Igagwu - PeerSpot reviewer
Scalable solution with an easy initial setup process
We use the solution for managing large programs, customer interactions, testing, and calculation purposes of our finance-based company The solution's most valuable feature is its ability to support dynamic developer profiles. We can easily create multiple accounts and rooms for different…
RajuGottupalli - PeerSpot reviewer
Minimizes a lot of coding, improves the time to market, and is easily deployable and configurable
Spring Boot is a bounded framework. The services we develop are purely synchronous services, so there's a blocking and waiting state. This is a big problem in microservices. To avoid this problem, we have to make the service a reactive session. It has to be reactive to a particular load, particular condition, or based on the number of requests hitting the particular service. All these factors make the service a reactor. There's another module in which Spring Boot provides spring reflex. This module enables the reactiveness of the service, meaning that it eliminates the blocking and waiting state. For example, if you're sending a get operation or a post operation, there won't be any waiting for it to actually hit that particular network to get the data from another service. It continuously flows the request, and there is a zero waiting pack. Vert.x is another good framework where there are similar features or similar benefits with having a reactive session. Spring Boot is a license resource, so it's a framework where we can customize our solution or a particular requirement to build a good solution using Spring Boot. But it's an opinionated framework, meaning that it's completely bounded. You have only one direction to find a solution, whereas Vert.x is an unopinionated framework. Unopinionated is a kind of a toolkit where you can have more optimization and a more flexible solution, which is suitable to your requirements. In Spring Boot, the opportunities are limited. With Vert.x and other programming tools, we have multiple options to explore the solution in a different way and achieve a nonfunctional requirement of thousands transactions in a second. Spring Boot might not support this kind of non-functional requirement. Vert.X is a very good solution to solve critical NFRs for a particular application.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Provides a lightweight runtime."
"The solution is stable."
"We use the solution to create microservices."
"This is a stable solution that is being used in the HR space."
"This solution is really user friendly. In terms of prototyping, it's really fast to build the applications we want to test to complete a proof of concept."
"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 all the interactions to various applications happen using Spring Boot."
"The community surrounding Spring Boot is really good. If you face any issue with Spring Boot, you will get the answer from the community."
"The solution is easy to use; I primarily employ integrated templates such as the REST template."
"The most valuable feature of Spring Boot is the microservices and change information. Additionally, there are plenty of features."
"Features that help with monitoring and tracking network calls between several micro services."
 

Cons

"Its performance speed could be improved while working on the browser."
"The tool needs to improve its messaging."
"Deployment of microservers in the Kubernetes environment is difficult."
"If you want to create large microservices applications, you need to connect several applications and services to each other. It is very complicated, and Spring Boot does not have an integrated solution for it."
"It's difficult to explain to junior developers what it does under the hood."
"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."
"The services we develop are purely synchronous services, so there's a blocking and waiting state. This is a big problem in microservices."
"The performance could be better."
"Building a new product in Spring Boot can take a long time since the solution uses reflection. This is one area the solution could be improved."
"I would like to see more integration in this solution."
"When we change versions, we run into issues."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"If you want support there is paid enterprise version with support available."
"As Spring Boot is an open-source tool, it's free."
"Spring Boot is an open source solution, it is free to use."
"I am using a free version of Spring Boot."
"This is an open source solution."
"This is an open-source product."
"I use the free version of Spring Boot."
"The solution is free."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
20%
Computer Software Company
12%
Government
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
28%
Computer Software Company
13%
Government
7%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

Which is better - Spring Boot or Eclipse MicroProfile?
Springboot is a Java-based solution that is very popular and easy to use. You can use it to build applications quickly and confidently. Springboot has a very large, helpful learning community, whic...
What needs improvement with Eclipse MicroProfile?
The solution's performance speed could be better while working on the browser. Also, they should include an option for online publishing. It will make sharing work easier. We can just publish work ...
What do you like most about Spring Boot?
1. Open Source2. Excellent Community Support -- Widely used across different projects -- so your search for answers would be easy and almost certain.3. Extendable Stack with a wide array of availab...
Which is better - Spring Boot or Jakarta EE?
Our organization ran comparison tests to determine whether the Spring Boot or Jakarta EE application creation software was the better fit for us. We decided to go with Spring Boot. Spring Boot offe...
 

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