Comparison To The Enterprise Edition

While the open source version is a cool stuff, however, the enterprise edition has some advantages:

• support for multitenancy

• easier installation, it ships as a deb package and an install script

• the Launch my instance! free service

• support for multiple nodes (scale out), it may come handy if you have really lots of data

• flexible SMTP routing

• more choices for authentication, including SSO against Azure AD, AWS Cognito, and other 3rd party Oauth providers, eg. github, linkedin, etc.

• improved attachment storage. The open source version needs the attachment table to re-assemble the email, the commercial edition doesn’t need it

• support for compressed or zipped top level dirs. Both editions store one or more files for a single email, thus resulting millions of files in /var/piler/store directory. The enterprise edition allows you to zip them to a series of zip files for easier backup

• support for Prometheus monitoring

• support for S3 compatible object stores. You may keep your data files off the archive host, eg. Amazon AWS S3, Wasabi object store, Exoscale, etc or even in a local minio installation.

• REST api to automate frequent tasks

• free support during the 30 day evaluation period

• digitally sign exported emails by pilerexport

• private issue tracker in case of the support service

• Zipkin compatible tracing support for the GUI. You may use Jaeger as well