Licensing

The usage scenarios of AutoMQ can be categorized based on deployment forms as follows:

• Self-deployed Community Edition: You can independently deploy and maintain the AutoMQ Community Edition in a Private Cloud environment.

• Purchasing the Business Edition: By utilizing the Business Edition and services provided by the AutoMQ Team, you can receive technical support and operations services from the AutoMQ Team. The Business Edition comes in two forms:

  • AutoMQ Cloud A fully managed cloud service version provided by the AutoMQ Team, particularly suitable for Public Cloud environments.

  • AutoMQ Enterprise A Business Edition software for Private Cloud, referred to as AutoMQ Enterprise.

Community Edition

The AutoMQ Community Edition is governed by the AutoMQ BSL License, and the source code for all related features can be viewed in the GitHub project.

Note:

Any user can freely access the code and artifacts of the AutoMQ Community Edition. It should be noted that providing commercial services such as message queues and stream storage to third parties requires a commercial license from AutoMQ Inc.

Each Community Edition source code under the BSL license automatically converts to the Apache V2.0 License four years after release.

The legal entity referred to as "The AutoMQ Team" or "AutoMQ Inc." is AutoMQ HK Limited.

Business Edition

The AutoMQ Business Edition is designed for enterprise-level needs, offering fully managed operations with an SLA commitment. Compared to the Community Edition, it features significant optimizations and improvements in critical areas such as fault recovery, disaster recovery, elasticity, and observability. The detailed comparison is as follows:

-	AutoMQ Community Edition	AutoMQ Business Edition
Product Name	AutoMQ	AutoMQ Cloud		AutoMQ Enterprise
Service Type	Free Software	SaaS Fully Managed Service [1]	BYOC Fully Managed Service [2]	Paid Software [3]
Deployment Environment	Public Cloud or Private Cloud: AWS Alibaba Cloud Tencent Cloud Huawei Cloud Baidu Cloud Chinatelecom Cloud MinIO Ceph CubeFS	For Public Cloud, supported major cloud providers: AWS Azure Google Cloud Alibaba Cloud Tencent Cloud Huawei Cloud Baidu Cloud Chinatelecom Cloud		For Private Cloud, supports the following storage technology stack: MinIO Ceph CubeFS HDFS
Resource Ownership	IaaS resources owned by the user	IaaS resources owned by AutoMQ Inc. cloud account	IaaS resources owned by the user's cloud account	IaaS resources owned by the user
Data Sovereignty	100% private, data does not leave the user's private network	100% secure, authorized AutoMQ Inc. cloud account management	100% private, data remains within the user's VPC	100% private, data remains within the user's private network
Maintenance Method	Self-deployed and self-maintained	One-click activation through cloud marketplace, official website, etc., fully managed services covering the following scenarios: Deployment Version upgrades (new features and bug fixes) Parameter tuning System alerts[4] Online fault handling[5]		All maintenance operations executed by the customer, with remote technical support provided by the AutoMQ Team
Payment Method	[Optional] Subscribe to Technical Consultation	Pay-as-you-go: Billed hourly based on usage Subscription: Prepay for a specific term and resource allocation		Annual Subscription: Pay annually for specified term and resource allocation Perpetual License: One-time purchase for software usage rights
Cost Structure	Machine resource costs (self-provided) Operational and development manpower investment Commercial Technical Consultation (Optional)	Software Service Fee (pricing includes cloud resources)	Software Service Fee (pricing excludes cloud resources) Cloud resource costs (paid to cloud providers)	Software Service Fee (pricing excludes machine resources) Machine resource costs (self-provided)
Technical Support	None Community technical support	Expert technical support Online emergency response support		Expert technical support Online emergency response support
Applicable Scenarios	Initial PoC testing Production applications only recommended for customers with significant R&D team investment	Default option for Public Cloud customers	Some Public Cloud customers, who wish to leverage IaaS discounts, keep data within VPC, and accept maintenance authorization	Applicable to financial and government enterprise customers who require complete data sovereignty and isolated environments.

• [1] Refers to deploying both the control plane and data plane of AutoMQ Cloud entirely within AutoMQ Inc.'s main account independent VPC, interconnected with the customer's VPC through VPC PrivateLink or VPC Peering.

• [2] Refers to deploying both the control plane and data plane of AutoMQ Cloud within the customer's main account VPC.

• [3] Refers to deploying both the control plane and data plane of AutoMQ Enterprise within the customer's Private Cloud, with the customer responsible for operations and maintenance, while AutoMQ Inc. provides technical support and version upgrades.

• [4] During the operation of AutoMQ Server, logs, metrics, and diagnostic data generated will be stored in a separate object storage bucket. The customer needs to grant cross-account authorization for this bucket to the main account of The AutoMQ Team. The AutoMQ SaaS platform will analyze the customer's cluster logs and metrics in real-time, ensuring the stable operation of the customer's cluster by AutoMQ's professional development team in the background.

• [5] AutoMQ Server is equipped with automatic fault recovery features, monitoring various performance metrics of the cluster in real-time and isolating any abnormal nodes to achieve fault recovery before the issue affects the application. This process is typically completed within minutes, after which AutoMQ Team's engineers will conduct a background analysis of the fault causes.

If you need to evaluate or learn more about the Business Edition, please fill out the form, and our product experts will contact you as soon as possible.

Product Capability Comparison List

Capability Group	Capability Item	Community Edition	Business Edition
Cloud-Native Architecture Design	Second-Level Partition Reassignment	✅	✅
	Minute-Level Smooth Scaling	✅	✅
	100% Compatibility with Apache Kafka	✅	✅
Self-balancing	Scheduling based on traffic throughput pressure	✅	✅
	Scheduling based on request call pressure	❌	✅
	Automatic identification of cold data reads	❌	✅
	Automatic identification of slow nodes	❌	✅
Disaster Recovery	Self-healing for server crashes	✅	✅
	Proactive self-healing for node hangs	❌	✅ Supports active scheduling and isolation recovery for various fault scenarios: Network jitter isolation recovery Server hang isolation recovery FullGC isolation recovery Slow request isolation recovery
	Multi-AZ disaster recovery	❌	✅Achieves cross-AZ scheduling and recovery based on Regional EBS
	Object storage disaster recovery	❌	✅Supports cross-region write disaster recovery for S3 with automatic failover
	Block storage disaster recovery	❌	✅Supports rapid hot data persistence to disaster recovery EBS
	Multi-cloud disaster recovery	❌	✅ Supports cross-cluster routing for disaster recovery, including message offset and consumer group state reassignment
Elasticity & Cost Optimization	Storage Elasticity	✅ Kernel natively supports pay-as-you-go with S3	✅ Kernel natively supports pay-as-you-go with S3
	Traffic-following elasticity scaling	❌	✅
	Supports multiple EBS and multiple WAL	❌	✅
	Supports single cluster multi-bucket read/write	❌	✅
	Multi-Metric Elasticity	❌	✅Supports multi-metric elasticity, including CPU, memory, and network throughput, making it more adaptable to complex stress scenarios
	Scheduled Elastic Scaling	❌	✅Ready to use out-of-the-box
	Large-Scale Spot Instances	❌ Requires handling the risk of Spot instance termination	✅Ready to use out-of-the-box, allows for custom allocation of Spot instance ratios and scaling based on business needs
GUI-Based Management	Cluster Reassignment Tool	❌	✅ Provides a Managed Seamless Reassignment Tool
	Web Console	❌	✅ Offers an Out-of-the-Box Console One-Click Cluster Scaling and Configuration Changes Version Management, Supporting Upgrades and Rollbacks CRUDL Management for Topics, Groups, and Clusters Status Queries for Accumulation and Traffic Hotspots
Observability	JMX Metrics	✅	✅
	Prometheus	❌	✅ Provides a Custom Metrics Store Dumping Feature
	OTLP Integration	❌	✅
	Grafana Dashboard	❌	✅ Offers an Out-of-the-Box Visualization Dashboard
	Monitoring and Alerts	❌	✅ Offers out-of-the-box monitoring and alert templates for easy configuration Operational anomaly alerts Lagging alerts, etc.
	Audit Logs	❌	✅ Features out-of-the-box event auditing capabilities (utilizing operational S3 buckets) Operational action events Automatic self-balancing events Anomaly events
Integration	Kafka Connect	✅	✅
	MirrorMaker2	✅	✅
	SSO/LDAP/AD Integration	❌	✅
DevOps Automation	Kafka Admin API/CLI	✅	✅
	Kubernetes	❌	✅
	Terraform	❌	✅
	Cluster Management REST APIs	❌	✅
Supported Cloud Providers	AWS	✅	✅
	Azure	❌	✅
	Google Cloud Platform	❌	✅
	Alibaba Cloud	✅	✅
	Tencent Cloud	✅	✅
	Huawei Cloud	✅	✅
	Baidu Cloud	✅	✅
	Chinatelecom Cloud	✅	✅
	China Mobile Cloud	✅	✅
Supported Storage Technology Stack	MinIO	✅	✅
	Ceph	✅	✅
	CubeFS	✅	✅
	HDFS	❌	✅
Software Products	Binary	✅	✅
	Docker	✅	✅
	Cloud Machine Image	❌	✅
Expert Services	Support Channels	Community Assistance	Enterprise Ticket System
	Priority Support from Experts	❌	Product Integration Consultation Business Architecture Consultation Cluster Risk Assessment Critical Business Window Support

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