Modern Java applications often handle massive datasets, requiring optimized memory usage, low-latency access, and high throughput.
In this article, three leading Java libraries for performance and efficiency are compared: Apache Arrow, FastUtil, and Chronicle Queue.
Apache Arrow is ideal for ETL pipelines, ML feature engineering, and cross-language analytics, with zero-copy data sharing, SIMD optimizations, and GPU offloading support.
FastUtil is recommended for in-memory caching, high-frequency trading, and graph algorithms, with its high-speed primitive collections and minimal object overhead.