Mule ESB Community Vs Enterprise Edition

High Availability and Performance

Feature	CommunityEdition	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

Development

Feature	CommunityEdition	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

Operational Support

Feature	CommunityEdition	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

Security

Feature	CommunityEdition	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.

Support

Feature	CommunityEdition	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