Obtaining Canton¶
Choosing Open-Source or Enterprise Edition¶
The Canton distributed ledger is included with Daml Enterprise edition, or available as open source. Which role the application takes depends on the configuration. The main administration interface of the Canton application is the embedded console, which is part of the application.
Canton releases come in two variants: Open-Source or Enterprise. Both support the full Canton protocol, but differ in terms of enterprise and non-functional capabilities:
| Capability | Enterprise | Open-Source |
|---|---|---|
| Daml Synchronisation | Yes | Yes |
| Sub-Transaction Privacy | Yes | Yes |
| Transaction Processing | Parallel (fast) | Sequential (slow) |
| High Availability | Yes | No |
| High Throughput via Microservices | Yes | No |
| Resource Management | Yes | No |
| Ledger Pruning | Yes | No |
| Party on multiple nodes | Yes | No |
| AWS and GCP KMS support | Yes | No |
| Postgres Backend | Yes | Yes |
| Oracle Backend | Yes | No |
| Besu driver | Yes | No |
| Fabric driver | Yes | No |
Please follow below instructions in order to obtain your copy of Canton.
Downloading 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.