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
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
There are two primary methods for setting the license key in your environment:
Manual method
To set your license key manually:
- Before launching a new cluster:
- Add
system.license_key
to your TOML configuration file, or - Set
RW_LICENSE_KEY
environment variable
- Add
- For an existing cluster, use this SQL command:
Automated method
To set your license key automatically:
- Use the
--license-key-path
CLI option for the meta node to monitor and reload the license key from a specified file. This streamlines license key rotation in Cloud environments. - Alternatively, set the
RW_LICENSE_KEY_PATH
environment variable.
The --license-key-path
CLI option is only available for the meta node, as the license key is propagated to other nodes through system parameters. When the --license-key-path
option is specified, any manual configuration of the license key through system parameters (license_key
), the initial configuration (system.license_key
), or the RW_LICENSE_KEY
environment variable will be rejected.
Verify license key
To check if your license key is valid, run:
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.
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