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As of JDK 7 OpenJDK and Oracle JDK can be considered equal.

The OracleJDK is built on top of OpenJDK. The only differences, according to a quick google, are some additional tooling, higher quality Java2D rendering and a different licence.

There is no difference in GC algorithms, hotspot optimisations, etc.

Tl;dr use OpenJDK



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