OpenLayers vs HERE Geocoding: What are the differences?

What is OpenLayers? A high-performance, feature-packed library for all your mapping needs. An opensource javascript library to load, display and render maps from multiple sources on web pages.

What is HERE Geocoding? High-precision mapping of geo-coordinates and addresses. It provides comprehensive coverage in 196 countries and a number of territories with high-precision mapping of geo-coordinates and addresses It enables the optimization and processing of high volumes of data, and enables the multi-reverse geocoding of hundreds of coordinates in one request or batch geocoding of hundreds of addresses through single file uploads..

OpenLayers and HERE Geocoding can be categorized as "Mapping APIs" tools.

Some of the features offered by OpenLayers are:

• Tiled Layers - Pull tiles from OSM, Bing, MapBox, Stamen, MapQuest, and any other XYZ source you can find. OGC mapping services and untiled layers also supported.
• Fast & Mobile Ready - Mobile support out of the box. Build lightweight custom profiles with just the components you need.
• Vector Layers - Render vector data from GeoJSON, TopoJSON, KML, GML, and a growing number of other formats.

On the other hand, HERE Geocoding provides the following key features:

• Accuracy that boosts efficiency
• Gain highly relevant results
• Spot opportunities, trends and patterns

OpenLayers is an open source tool with 5.82K GitHub stars and 2.09K GitHub forks. Here's a link to OpenLayers's open source repository on GitHub.