Choose your Chronacta edition
Chronacta provides a complete single-node event store. Enterprise adds high availability, security integrations, and additional operational capabilities. Choose according to your deployment requirements.
What the editions share
Both editions provide event streams, versions, subscriptions, and projections. The main differences concern clustering, security integration, and operations.
Chronacta has no artificial event-count cap. Practical capacity still depends on hardware, workload, storage growth, and recovery requirements.
| Area | Chronacta | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Single-node applications | Multi-node deployments |
| Topology | Single node | High availability and replication |
| Stream API | Append, read, read-all, list, and information | Core stream API and multi-node operations |
| Subscriptions | Transient and durable | Consumer groups and additional delivery capabilities |
| Projections | Built-in projections: create, rebuild, result, and state | Additional runtimes and diagnostics |
| Schema registry | Registration, retrieval, listing, and basic validation | Additional compatibility and governance capabilities |
| Identity and access | Local users and roles | SSO, OIDC, LDAP, and extended role-based access control |
| Transport security | Unencrypted gRPC; TLS through a reverse proxy | Built-in TLS and a production security profile |
| Backup and recovery | Local backup, restore, export, and import | Remote backups, scheduling, and disaster-recovery tooling |
| Data integration | Export and import | Postgres read models, connectors, and NATS ingress |
| Gateways and administration | CLI and gRPC | REST and WebSocket gateways, administrative UI |
| Observability | External process and infrastructure monitoring | Metrics, tracing, and multi-node diagnostics |
| Multi-tenancy | Not included | Tenant management and quotas |
| Developer interfaces | Chronacta CLI and gRPC | Enterprise CLI, gateways, and SDK publishing |
Start with a single-node server
Chronacta supports event appends, reads, subscriptions, built-in projections, local backups, and data export. It can serve development and production workloads that fit a single-node deployment.
You operate the process and storage, configure external transport protection when needed, and provide monitoring and recovery procedures.
Extend your operational capabilities
Enterprise adds replication and high availability, corporate identity integration, remote backup management, additional integrations, and administrative tooling.
Evaluate these capabilities against your availability targets, security requirements, and recovery procedures. A cluster still requires deliberate deployment and operation.
Consider Enterprise when you need
- replication, high availability, and visibility into replication lag;
- built-in TLS and a production security profile;
- SSO, OIDC, or LDAP integration;
- scheduled remote backups and disaster-recovery tooling;
- Postgres read-model integration and inbound connectors;
- consumer groups and additional delivery controls;
- additional projection runtimes and diagnostics;
- tenant management and quotas.
Choose Enterprise for capabilities your deployment requires. Growth in event count alone is not a licensing trigger, but it can change capacity and recovery requirements.
How to choose
- Choose Chronacta when a single node and externally managed operations meet your requirements.
- Evaluate Enterprise when you need high availability, corporate identity integration, or additional recovery and administration tools.
- Measure before deciding using realistic event sizes, write and read workloads, consumer lag, and restore or rebuild times.
Software licensing
Software editions and support tiers are separate choices. Enterprise software capabilities and commercial support commitments are not interchangeable.
- Chronacta: $0 for the single-node edition. Review the source-available license included in the repository for usage terms.
- Chronacta Enterprise: contact us to discuss licensing for your deployment.
Support tiers
Community support is provided on a best-effort basis through public issues. Standard, Premium, and Enterprise support offer commercial response commitments. See the operations documentation for the support matrix.
A support agreement defines assistance and escalation terms. It does not add Enterprise capabilities to the Chronacta single-node server.