Updated on 2023-08-18 GMT+08:00

Edition Differences

Enhanced Hyperledger Fabric

BCS provides basic and professional editions with different specifications. For details, see Table 1. Table 2 lists the cluster specifications.

For the pricing details of each edition, see Product Price Details.

Only one BCS instance can be deployed in a container cluster.

Table 1 Comparison between editions

Item

Basic Edition

Professional Edition

Applicable scenario

Small scale commercial use

Medium-scale commercial use

Consortium blockchain

Supported

Supported

Peak transaction performance

≤ 500 TPS

≤ 2000 TPS

Consensus algorithms

Raft(CFT)

Supported

Supported

FBFT

Not supported

Supported

Node management

Maximum number of organizations

2

5

Maximum number of peers in an organization

2

2

Maximum number of orderers

3

4

Maximum number of channels

2

4

Automatic recovery from node faults

Supported

Supported

Node auto scaling

Supported

Supported

Maximum number of light nodes

Not supported

10

Security functions

ECDSA

Supported

Supported

OSCCA-published cryptographic algorithms

Not supported

Supported

Additive homomorphic encryption

Not supported

Supported

Zero knowledge proof

Not supported

Supported

High availability

Invoking smart contracts through RESTful APIs

Supported

Supported

Common deployment

Supported

Supported

High-availability deployment

Not supported

Not supported

O&M and monitoring

O&M logging

Supported

Supported

Node status monitoring

Supported

Supported

Status alarms

Supported

Supported

Service support

Named service manager

Not supported

Not supported

Remote technical support from the R&D team

Not supported

Not supported

Onsite technical support

Not supported

Not supported

Table 2 Specifications

Edition

Cloud Container Engine (CCE) Cluster

Elastic Cloud Server (ECS)

Elastic IP (EIP) Address

VPCs and Subnets

Container Networking

Basic Edition

cce.s1.small (small-scale, single-master CCE cluster, supporting a maximum of 50 nodes)

Single-AZ deployment

Specification: 4 vCPUs and 8 GB memory

Quantity: Number of peers in the organization/2 + Number of orderers (1)

Private blockchain: no EIPs

Consortium blockchain: one EIP for each cluster node

EIP bandwidth: 1 Mbit/s

VPC: 1; subnet: 1

VPC network

Professional Edition

cce.s2.small

(small-scale, high-availability CCE cluster, supporting a maximum of 50 nodes)

Multi-AZ deployment

Specification: 8 vCPUs and 16 GB memory

Quantity: Number of peers in the organization/2 + Number of orderers

Private blockchain: no EIPs

Consortium blockchain: one EIP for each cluster node

EIP bandwidth: 5 Mbit/s

VPC: 1; subnet: 1

VPC network