Edition Differences

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
Consensus algorithms	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