RisingWave Premium Edition

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.

The RisingWave Community Edition and Premium Edition share the same underlying binary or container image. Users of the Community Edition need to purchase a license key to access the Premium Edition features.

For RisingWave Cloud users, all Premium Edition features are available out of the box without additional cost.

Premium features

The following are Premium Edition features, which include a “Premium Edition Feature” note in the documentation.

Tooling

Premium Edition customers can take advantage of our on-prem management tool to enhance observability for their RisingWave clusters. This tool accelerates issue detection, streamlines troubleshooting, and optimizes performance.

A lightweight version is available under the Apache 2.0 License: risingwave-console.

Performance and cost

The Elastic disk cache feature harnesses modern hardware to dramatically reduce S3 access costs - by up to 90% - while enhancing performance and improving robustness. Contact us to learn more.

SQL and security

Schema management

Connectors

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.

The premium features are carefully selected based on the following criteria:

Seamless integration with proprietary or licensed open-source systems.
Advanced features that enhance development velocity and lower production deployment overhead.
Performance improvements for non-standard deployment environments.
Tailored features specifically requested by our paying customers.

How to access Premium Edition features

For RisingWave Cloud users, all Premium Edition features are available out of the box without additional cost.

Users of the Community Edition need to purchase and set up a license key to access Premium Edition features. 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.

Free trial

RisingWave provides a trial of paid features for clusters with up to 4 compute node CPUs, allowing you to evaluate these features on a small scale. When there are more CPUs in the cluster, the trial will be unavailable for both existing and future jobs, and you will need to acquire a license key to continue using the paid features.

For a fresh deployment, this free trial is included automatically.
For an existing deployment upgrading to this version, you may need to refresh the license key by executing ALTER SYSTEM SET license_key TO DEFAULT; in the SQL shell to activate the trial.

Set license key

Depending on the deployment, there are several different ways of setting license key.

If you used the RisingWave Operator to deploy the RisingWave, you could follow the steps to set the license key. For detailed instructions of deploying RisingWave with the RisingWave Operator, please check the Deploy RisingWave on Kubernetes with Operator.

Prepare a secret under the same namespace as the RisingWave object, e.g.,

apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: risingwave-license
stringData:
  licenseKey: |
    <content of the license key>

Set the following fields of the RisingWave object.

apiVersion: risingwave.risingwavelabs.com/v1alpha1
kind: RisingWave
metadata:
  name: <your-risingwave>
spec:
  licenseKey:
    secretName: risingwave-license # the name of the secret above
    secretKey: licenseKey # the key in the secret above referencing the data of the license key

Apply the RisingWave object to Kubernetes.

The pod of the meta node (or standalone node) will restart to reflect the license key.

If you’d like to renew the license key afterwards, you could simply update the content of the secret created above. The change will be propagated to and loaded by RisingWave automatically.

Prepare a secret under the same namespace as the RisingWave object, e.g.,

apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: risingwave-license
stringData:
  licenseKey: |
    <content of the license key>

Set the following fields of the RisingWave object.

apiVersion: risingwave.risingwavelabs.com/v1alpha1
kind: RisingWave
metadata:
  name: <your-risingwave>
spec:
  licenseKey:
    secretName: risingwave-license # the name of the secret above
    secretKey: licenseKey # the key in the secret above referencing the data of the license key

Apply the RisingWave object to Kubernetes.

The pod of the meta node (or standalone node) will restart to reflect the license key.

If you’d like to renew the license key afterwards, you could simply update the content of the secret created above. The change will be propagated to and loaded by RisingWave automatically.

If you used the Helm chart to deploy the RisingWave, you could follow the steps to set the license key. For detailed instructions of deploying RisingWave with Helm, please check the Deploy RisingWave on Kubernetes with Helm.

Prepare a secret under the same namespace as the RisingWave Helm release, e.g.,

apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: risingwave-license
stringData:
  licenseKey: |
    <content of the license key>

Set the following values, e.g., in the values.yaml file.

license:
  secret:
    name: "risingwave-license"
    key: "licenseKey"

Apply the values with the helm command-line tool.

# For fresh installation, you could provide additional values with more "-f <values.yaml>"
# For more information of the helm install, please refer to https://helm.sh/docs/helm/helm_install/
helm install -f values.yaml [-f <other-values.yaml>] <release-name> risingwavelabs/risingwave

# For upgrading existing one.
# For more information of the helm upgrade, please refer to https://helm.sh/docs/helm/helm_upgrade/
helm upgrade -f values.yaml --reuse-values <release-name> risingwavelabs/risingwave

The pod of the meta node (or standalone node) will restart afterwards to set the license key.

If you’d like to renew the license key afterwards, you could simply update the content of the secret created above. The change will be propagated to and loaded by RisingWave automatically.

For an existing cluster, use this SQL command:

ALTER SYSTEM SET license_key TO '...';

Note you’ll need to rotate the license by yourself with the same SQL command before expiration.

There are several ways to set your license key to a local RisingWave:

Add system.license_key to your TOML configuration file before launching a new RisingWave
Set RW_LICENSE_KEY environment variable on meta node
Use the --license-key-path CLI option or the RW_LICENSE_KEY_PATH environment variable on meta node to specify a file holding the license key. Changes to the file will be monitored and meta node will reload the license key. This helps streamline license key rotation.

When the --license-key-path option or the RW_LICENSE_KEY_PATH environment variable 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:

SELECT rw_test_paid_tier();

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

Retrieve license details

To retrieve detailed license information, run:

SELECT rw_license();

If the current license is valid, the output will look like this:

{"cpu_core_limit": null, "exp": 9999999999, "iss": "test.risingwave.com", "sub": "rw-test", "tier": "paid"}

Otherwise, an error message will indicate the issue (e.g., invalid token, expired license).

Support package

RisingWave provides three levels of support packages:

Support package	Starter	Pro	Mission-Critical
Service Hours	8 am - 6 pm (M-F; Local Time)	24x7	24x7
Support Type	Standard	Premium	Premium
Support SLA	Urgent - 4 hrs	Urgent - 2 hrs	Urgent - 1 hr
	High - 12 hrs	High - 8 hrs	High - 4 hrs
	Normal - 48 hrs	Normal - 24 hrs	Normal - 12 hrs
	Low - 1 week	Low - 48 hrs	Low - 24 hrs
Designated Technical Account Manager	No	No	Yes
Slack / Team Channels	No	Yes	Yes

Pricing

When you purchase the RisingWave Premium Edition, it automatically includes the Starter support package at no additional cost. If you require more advanced support, you may upgrade to the Pro or Mission-Critical support packages for an additional fee. For detailed pricing information on the Premium Edition and support packages, please contact our sales team at sales@risingwave-labs.com.

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RisingWave Premium Edition

What is RisingWave Premium?

Premium features

Tooling

Performance and cost

SQL and security

Schema management

Connectors

How to access Premium Edition features

Free trial

Set license key

Verify license key

Retrieve license details

Support package

Pricing

Get started

Working with data

Deploy & operate

Performance

Troubleshooting

Reference

Cloud

​What is RisingWave Premium?

​Premium features

​Tooling

​Performance and cost

​SQL and security

​Schema management

​Connectors

​How to access Premium Edition features

​Free trial

​Set license key

​Verify license key

​Retrieve license details

​Support package

​Pricing

What is RisingWave Premium?

Premium features

Tooling

Performance and cost

SQL and security

Schema management

Connectors

How to access Premium Edition features

Free trial

Set license key

Verify license key

Retrieve license details

Support package

Pricing