You might also want to look at our most recent update on Mule Community Edition (Kernel) vs Mule Enterprise Edition.
As a MuleSoft System Integration partner one of the common question our customers and prospects keep asking – “What is the difference between Mule ESB Community Edition and Enterprise Edition..?”. We tried to put this comparison between the Mule ESB Enterprise Edition and Community Edition.
Mule ESB Enterprise is sold in three different subscription tiers Silver (S), Gold (G) and Platinum (P), the comparison tables tell you what is supported or not supported and how can it impact your choice.
For a detailed assessment you can contact our team of experts at mulesoft.adr@whishworks.com. They can help you with Capacity Planning and your ESB Architecture.
(A) High Availability and Performance
| Feature | Community Edition | Enterprise Edition (G) / (S) | Enterprise Edition (P) | Impact |
| High Availability | No Support | No Support | Supported | Message Loss and Transaction failure |
| Resilience | No Support | No Support | Supported | Impact on effort to take care of state full and failure scenarios |
| Caching | No Support | Supported | Supported | Performance Impact |
(B) Development
| Feature | Community Edition | Enterprise Edition (G) / (S) | Enterprise Edition (P) | Impact |
| Anypoint Templates | No Support | No Support | Supported | Saves development and design effort by using templates. Guesstimated to be 40 to 60% time saving depending on how close the use case matches to the template. |
| Transaction Management | No Support | Supported | Supported | Data loss and Impact on development effort |
| Batch Manager | No Support | Supported | Supported | Impact on Development & Support Effort |
| Batch Process component | No Support | Supported | Supported | Impact on Development & Support Effort |
| JDBC Enterprise Connector | No Support | Supported | Supported | for handling Batch statements, used in Data Integration project. Performance hit. |
| Anypoint Datamapper | No Support | Supported | Supported | Impact on Development |
(C) Operational Support
| Feature | Community Edition | Enterprise Edition (G) / (S) | Enterprise Edition (P) | Impact |
| Mule Management Console | No Support | Supported | Supported | Impact on Support |
| SLA and email Alerts | No Support | Supported | Supported | Impact on Support and Availability |
| SNMP Monitoring | No | Supported | Supported | Impact on Support and Availability |
| HTTP Polling | No | Supported | Supported | Impact on Support and Availability. Mule provides Http polling of service for availability. |
| Deployment Management | No Support | Supported | Supported | Impact on Support |
(D) Security
| Feature | Community Edition | Enterprise Edition (G) / (S) | Enterprise Edition (P) | Impact |
| Role based security | Not Supported | Supported | Supported | Major effort to custom develop |
| Oauth 2.0 – Secure Token Provider | Not Supported | Supported | Supported | Major effort to custom develop |
| Message Encryption | Not Supported | Supported | Supported | Major effort to custom develop |
| SAML 2.0 Module | Not Supported | Supported | Supported | Major effort to custom develop |
| Secure Property Holder | Not Supported | Supported | Supported | Keeps password and other confidential text in encrypted format. This cannot be custom built as it links directly to your endpoint. |
| IP Based Filtering | Not Supported | Supported | Supported | IP based filter is available in EE version for filtering endpoints based on inbound IP and requests can be filtered using LDAP. |
(E) Support
| Feature | Community Edition | Enterprise Edition (G) / (S) | Enterprise Edition (P) | Impact |
| License | Free | Purchase Minimum 2 Cores | Purchase Minimum 4 (2+2) for HA | Licence Cost |
| Hardened Code | No Support | Yes | Yes | Impact on stability and performance |
| SLA | Forums | 8/5, 24 Hours Response Time | 24/7, 2 Hours Response Time | Impact on support |
| Hot patches & Service packs | No Support | Supported | Supported | Impact on support and availability |
If you would like to find out more about how Mule Integration could help you make the most out of your current infrastructure while enabling you to open your digital horizons, do give us a call at +44 (0)203 475 7980 or email us at marketing@whishworks.com.
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