Edition Differences

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

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 algorithm	Raft(CFT)	Supported	Supported
Consensus algorithm	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
Security functions	ECDSA	Supported	Supported
Security functions	OSCCA-published cryptographic algorithms	Not supported	Supported
High availability	Invoking smart contracts through RESTful APIs	Supported	Supported
High availability	Common deployment	Supported	Supported
O&M and monitoring	O&M logging	Supported	Supported
	Node status monitoring	Supported	Supported
	Status alarms	Supported	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	Tunnel 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	Tunnel network