Every tier ships the same binary. What varies is deployment footprint, support SLA, and the compliance add-ons regulated enterprises need. The product is identical; the commitment is not.
POC · dev · OSS projects · single node
HA production · mid-size enterprise
Multi-region · regulated · global enterprise
| FEATURE | COMMUNITY | PROFESSIONAL | ENTERPRISE |
|---|---|---|---|
| Platform | |||
| ES 8.13 wire protocol drop-in for existing clients · 50 query types | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| BM25 + kNN hybrid native reciprocal rank fusion · one query | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Columnar logs delta-of-delta · dictionary · varint · ZSTD | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Agent memory session-scoped · time-decay · token-aware | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| SQ8 quantization int8 scoring precision, recall@10 = 0.998 · not a memory reduction today (#392) · nibble/4-bit not selectable in this build | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Explain-plan per-query audit artifact · first-class endpoint | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Deployment | |||
| Single-node | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| HA cluster (3-node) synchronous replication · 99.95 % target | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multi-region active-active async replication · DNS failover · 99.99 % target | — | — | Q3 2026 |
| Air-gapped deployment offline lexical binary · adjacent .sha256 integrity · optional local model | — | — | ✓ |
| Helm chart · Terraform | community | ✓ | ✓ |
| Security & compliance | |||
| TLS 1.3 in transit modern AEAD · zero-downtime cert rotation | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| AES-256-GCM at rest segment + WAL encrypted | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| BYOK customer-managed keys via KMS / HSM | — | — | ✓ |
| RBAC cluster · index · field-level roles | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| OIDC / SAML / SCIM enterprise IdP federation + provisioning | — | OIDC · SAML | full |
| Audit trail structured log of every privileged op · replayable | basic | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multi-tenant isolation per-tenant indices · quotas · RBAC | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Release integrity per-archive .sha256 digest · operator verification | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| HIPAA BAA | — | — | on request |
| SOC 2 Type I / II commercial SaaS track | — | Q3 2026 / Q2 2027 | Q3 2026 / Q2 2027 |
| ISO 27001 | — | Q4 2026 | Q4 2026 |
| Operations | |||
| Prometheus /metrics per-instance registry · 13 metrics built in | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Rolling upgrades segment + WAL forward-compatible · 1 minor rollback | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Snapshots + restore incremental · encrypted · segment-granular | local | S3 / GCS / Azure | ✓ + cross-region |
| Kubernetes Operator | — | Q2 2026 | Q2 2026 |
| Support | |||
| Channels | GitHub · forum | email + forum | 24×7 · phone · Slack |
| SLA | none | 24 h response | 1 h response |
| Uptime target | — | 99.95 % | 99.99 % |
| Dedicated CSM + SA named contact · quarterly architecture reviews | — | — | ✓ |
| Professional services migration runbooks · training · custom integrations | — | hourly | included |
| Private roadmap input + early access | — | — | ✓ |
Pricing is per-node for Professional · custom for Enterprise. No per-doc, per-vector, or per-query fees. Self-hosted means you own your compute.
Two-week pilot · mutual NDA optional · binary delivery does not require one. We reply within one business day.