In this short note, we want to visualize the benefits GraalVM native images offer you.

Several projects have accepted GraalVM Native Image as a platform for their applications: Quarkus, Micronaut, Helidon — support GraalVM native images. Spring Framework recently announced the upcoming support for native images.

We measured startup and memory footprint of a basic microservice in Helidon, Quarkus, and Micronaut and here are the results we got.