Hazelcast Editions and Distributions

Hazelcast offers Enterprise Edition and Community Edition versions of its software, each available as either a full or slim distribution.

Enterprise Edition

Hazelcast Enterprise Edition is a commercial product that extends the Community Edition offering to provide you with many benefits, including the security suite, blue/green deployments for clients, and a Hazelcast Customer Support subscription.

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In this documentation, topics related to an Enterprise Edition feature include an Enterprise EditionThis feature requires Hazelcast Enterprise, a licensed edition of the Hazelcast Platform. label.

The Enterprise Edition offers the following features, which are not available in the Community Edition :

• Security suite
• WAN Replication
• Configuring CP Subsystem
• Deploying in Openshift container platform
• Clustered REST
• Clustered JMX
• Rolling upgrades
• High-Density Memory Store
• Persisting Data on Disk
• Blue/Green client support
• Job updates

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All pre-existing Hazelcast licenses, such as the Pro/Enterprise/Enterprise HD licenses, are valid for Hazelcast Platform.

Community Edition

Hazelcast Community Edition is free and covered by an Apache License, Version 2.0 and a Hazelcast Community License.

The permissions granted in these licenses allow you to do the following:

• Use the Community Edition
• Reproduce the Community Edition
• Distribute the Community Edition with any open and/or closed source applications

Full and Slim Distributions

The following installation options offer a full and slim distribution:

• Docker
• ZIP/TAR Binaries
• Java

Other installation options offer only the full distribution.

You can find more information on installing the Hazelcast editions in the following topics:

• For the Enterprise Edition, see the Installing Hazelcast Enterprise Edition topic
• For the Community Edition, see the Installing Hazelcast Community Edition topic

Full Distribution

The full distribution contains all available Hazelcast connectors, libraries, and Management Center.

Full distribution content explanation

• bin — utility scripts for application management
• config - application configuration files (including reference examples)
• lib — application and dependency binaries
• licenses — application and dependency licenses
• management-center — bundled Management Center distribution

Slim Distribution

The slim distribution allows you to save memory by excluding Management Center and connectors. You add the additional components as required.

To install a slim distribution, you can use any of the available installation options by appending -slim to the version number in the command; for example, to install the slim distribution of 5.4.5, use 5.4.5-slim.

Slim distribution content explanation

• bin — utility scripts for application management
• config - application configuration files (including reference examples)
• lib — application and dependency binaries
• licenses — application and dependency licenses