RisingWave Premium Edition

This topic introduces the RisingWave Premium Edition and offers a complete list of all premium features.

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

• Time travel queries
• Secret management
• Database isolation
• Resource groups

Schema management

• Automatic schema changes for PostgreSQL CDC
• Automatic schema changes for MySQL CDC
• AWS Glue Schema Registry

Connectors

• Sink to Snowflake
• Sink to DynamoDB
• Sink to OpenSearch
• Sink to BigQuery
• Sink to SharedMergeTree table engine on ClickHouse Cloud
• Sink to SQL Server
• Direct SQL Server CDC source connector
• Sink to Iceberg with glue catalog

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.

RisingWave Operator (Kubernetes)

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.

1. 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>
   

2. 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
   

3. 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.

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 [e-mail].