Atomikos and Narayana are similar projects and provide similar solutions. Atomikos provides additional benefits compared to Narayana. See the table below for details as to how Atomikos compares to Narayana.
We offer free trials to qualified users and we get a lot of feedback from them. Some of these users come from the JBoss platform. We also know and respect Mark Little (he is now the CTO of Red Hat but used to be the lead of Narayana project). He's so passionate about his project that he will correct any mistakes we might put on this page - guaranteed.
| Feature | Benefit | Atomikos | JBoss (Narayana) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Easy to configure | Works standalone out-of-the-box | ||
| Built-in connection pools | No need to integrate with third-party pools | ||
| Embeddable in your application | Light-weight, easy to deploy, easy to test in IDE, fast turnaround times for development | ||
| Spring Boot integration | Works in the most popular Java VM | ||
| Tomcat integration | Works in the most popular web container | ||
| Commercial support available | Fast solutions for problems | ||
| XA transactions | Standards-based reliability | ||
| Elastic scaling | One shared configuration that can scale up and down | ||
| Microservices support | Commit/rollback across several microservices |
Narayana is technically sound, but its main focus is integration in the JBoss stack. That makes it harder to configure outside, and a less obvious choice if you want to use your own platform like Spring, Tomcat or Spring Boot. Some people we talked to claimed that Narayana's recovery often requires manual interventions so it's not self-healing.
If you're in the JBoss ecosystem, consider using Narayana. It's not a bad product and integrates well within the JBoss stack. In all other cases, consider Atomikos because our product was designed for independent use - outside of any vendor stack.
Apply for our free trial and see how you can solve your transaction problems with Atomikos. Click the button below to get in touch!
Free Trial
Thread Pooling Design
Session Handle State
JMS Connection Classes
Borrow Connection From Pool
CheckConnectionsInPool