Enterprise Suite for Canton¶
Digital Asset offers an enterprise distribution of Canton as well as complementary application modules and services geared towards helping institutions bring robust financial assets, applications and services to Canton Network quickly. The offering includes tooling to:
Connect: An enterprise grade validator node distribution with additional reliability and security features like high availability deployments and KMS integrations.
Build: Additional integration components like PQS and Shell offer developers a faster path to high scale applications.
DA Utilities: Composable modules and ready-to-go services on the network take care of the core of tokenization-related builds for Canton network
Subnets: Enterprise grade infrastructure components for running private subnets of Canton Network give institutions additional independence and controls needed to bring some use cases to Canton Network at scale.
Support: 24x7x365 SLA based support with escalation paths to the core developers of the Canton blockchain.
Enterprise or Open Source¶
All capabilities of the Canton blockchain are available using the Open Source distributions of Canton and the Daml SDK. The enterprise distribution offers additional accelerators, quality of life features, streamlined packaging, robustness and scalability enhancements, and enterprise grade support which are essential for bridging mission critical use cases to market fast. The differences and similarities are summarized below. Please contact sales@digitalasset.com for more information.
Capability |
Enterprise |
Open-Source |
|---|---|---|
Daml Synchronisation |
Yes |
Yes |
Sub-Transaction Privacy |
Yes |
Yes |
Transaction Processing |
Parallel (fast) |
Sequential (slow) |
High Availability |
No |
|
Yes |
No |
|
Yes |
No |
|
High Throughput via Microservices |
No |
|
Resource Management |
Yes |
No |
Ledger Pruning |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
|
Postgres Backend |
Yes |
Yes |
Please follow below instructions in order to obtain your copy of Canton.
Obtaining The Enterprise Edition¶
Enterprise releases are available on request (sales@digitalasset.com) and can be downloaded from the respective repository, or you can use our Canton Enterprise Docker images as described in our Docker instructions.
Downloading the Open Source Edition¶
The Open Source release is available from Github. You can also use our Canton Docker images by following our Docker instructions.