| License | Apache License 2.0 | Open Source with EULA |
| Release Frequency | Regular | Monthly |
| Production Support | Yes (Only in combination with WebLogic or Coherence) | Yes |
| Standards Support | MicroProfile | Microprofile, Jakarta EE Web Profile |
| Support For | MP Reactive Messaging, MP GraphQL, gRPC, JPA | JBatch, Jakarta EE Concurrency, JMS client, Kafka connectivity |
| Supported IDEs | Eclipse / NetBeans / IntelliJ IDE / VSCode | Eclipse / NetBeans / IntelliJ IDE / VSCode |
| Designed For | Microservices | Microservices, general applications |
| Project Creation | Helidon CLI, Maven, and Gradle archetypes | Maven and Gradle archetypes |
| Clustering | None | Automatic clustering in many environments including bare metal and Kubernetes |
| Configuration | YAML file | Asadmin commands |
| Request Tracing | Jersey, MicroProfile OpenTracing | MicroProfile OpenTracing, Servlet, CDI |
| Tracing Tools | Jaeger, OpenZipkin | Jaeger, OpenZipkin |
| Notifiers | None | Log files, SMTP, SNMP, CDI, Slack, New Relic, Datadog |
| Supported JVMs | JDK 11+, Graal VM Native compilation | Support and security updates for Java 7,8,11 and beyond; ARM-based JVMs |
