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 Salesforce@coforge.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 Salesforce@coforge.com
