Comparison Chart of Community and Enterprise Editions
The following comparison chart will assist you in further understanding the differences between the HPCC Systems Community and Enterprise Editions.
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Comparison Chart v1.9
| Community Edition | Enterprise Edition | ||
| Overview | Developers and highly technical enthusiasts in non-mission critical environments. This edition is unsupported and is intended to be used by those happy to spend time and resources solving issues independently. | For organizations looking for an enterprise scale, production-ready open source state-of-the-art data intensive supercomputing and delivery platform. | |
| License/Usage | Apache License, Version 2.0 (as of v3.10) | Commercial license | |
| Support for 3rd party Plugins | Open source 3rd party plugins from the community available. | Yes, see Plugins list. | |
| Access to the Certified ECL modules Library [?] | Basic ECL Library included | General purpose ECL Library plus additional Modules are provided to be used as examples and/or to extend the functionality of the language. | |
| Access control security model [?] | LDAP/Active Directory integration is included. | LDAP/Active Directory integration is included. | |
| Scalability | Thousands of nodes | Thousands of nodes | |
| High Availability | Yes | Yes | |
| System Monitoring | ECL Watch Console | ECL Watch Console | |
| Graphic Configuration Tool | Yes | Yes | |
| Source code repository integration | Supports most source code versioning systems through their standard utilities. | Supports most source code versioning systems through their standard utilities. | |
| Data Update System for Roxie | Yes | Yes | |
| Thor differential key copy: Keydiff | Yes | Yes | |
| Infiniband support | Through IPoIB | Native/RDMA | |
| Multiple Thor Process per node (MultiThor) | Yes | Yes | |
| Advanced Dali (support for remote reads) | Yes | Yes | |
| Training available | Yes, free online videos and paid classroom setting. | Yes, in addition to free online videos, receive a minimum of 10 training credits towards paid training. | |
| Certification | Basic testing against different Linux distributions |
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| Advanced integration modules [?] | No | Yes, see Modules list. | |
| ECL code encryption [?] | Yes | Yes | |
| Data Encryption [?] | No | Available for separate purchase. | |
| Remote Storage support [?] | No | Available for separate purchase. | |
| HThor and Roxie Debugger | Yes | Yes | |
| Data content browser (Roxie Browser) | Yes | Yes | |
| Support | Community support through discussion forums and online documentation. |
Bronze level support is included plus the following:
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| Price | FREE! | License based on number of nodes, special pricing for DR, development and QA environments |









