RisingWave Premium Edition

This topic introduces the RisingWave Premium Edition and offers a complete list of all premium features.

What is RisingWave Premium?

The RisingWave Premium Edition is a feature-rich paid offering built on top of the open-source RisingWave Community Edition that is available from RisingWave v2.0. Designed for enterprises and organizations with mission-critical data infrastructure needs, the Premium Edition provides a suite of enterprise-grade capabilities to help users maximize the benefits of their RisingWave deployments.

While the Premium Edition is a paid offering, it is designed to complement and enhance the open-source RisingWave Community Edition. The Community Edition will continue to be freely available under the Apache License (Version 2.0), and we remain committed to supporting the needs of our open-source community and ecosystem.

Both the RisingWave Community Edition and Premium Edition share the same underlying binary or container image. However, the Premium Edition features are only available to users who have purchased a license. This is managed by a dedicated license system maintained by the RisingWave team.

Premium features

RisingWave Premium 1.0 is the first major release of this new edition with several high-impact features planned. The following is the initial list of premium features, which we have targeted "Premium Edition Feature" note in the documentation.

SQL and security

• Time travel queries

• Secret management

Schema management

• Automatic schema mapping to the source tables for PostgreSQL CDC and MySQL CDC

• Automatic schema change for MySQL CDC

• AWS Glue Schema Registry

Connectors

• Sink to Snowflake

• Sink to DynamoDB

• Sink to OpenSearch

• Sink to BigQuery

• Sink to SharedMergeTree table engine on ClickHouse Cloud

• Sink to SQL Server

• Direct SQL Server CDC source connector

• Sink to Iceberg with glue catalog

For users who are already using these features in 1.9.x or earlier versions, rest assured that the functionality of these features will be intact if you stay on the version. If you choose to upgrade to v2.0 or later versions, an error will show up to indicate you need a license to use the features.

License key management

The Premium Edition features are only available to users who have purchased a license. The license key, essentially a certificate, is a JSON Web Token (JWT) that encodes information such as the license tier and expiration time. The integrity of the license key is validated using asymmetric encryption.

Set license key

To set your license key:

1. Before launching a new cluster:

   • Add system.license_key to your TOML configuration file, or
   • Set RW_LICENSE_KEY environment variable

2. For an existing cluster, use this SQL command:

   ALTER SYSTEM SET license_key TO '...';

Verify license key

To check if your license key is valid, run:

SELECT rw_test_paid_tier();

A result of t means the key is valid; an error message indicates an invalid key.

Support

RisingWave Premium edition offers the premium support:

Support feature	Standard	Premium
Service hours	12x5	24x7
Response time	Critical - 4 hours	Critical - 1 hour
	High - 12 hours	High - 4 hours
	Medium - 24 hours	Medium - 12 hours
	Low - 48 hours	Low - 24 hours
Dedicated Slack channel	No	Yes
Max technical contacts	2	8
Named support engineer	No	Yes
Solution engineer access	2 hours per month	8 hours per month

Pricing

Pricing for RisingWave Premium will be based on the cluster size, measured in RisingWave Units (RWUs). The number of RWUs will be determined based on the scale of data ingestion, number of streaming jobs, and the complexity of use case. There could be additional factors as well. Please contact our sales at sales@risingwave-labs.com for more details.