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    Solace Event Broker is available in three form factors: a cloud-managed service, an appliance, and software. All brokers are functionally equivalent, fully interoperable, and can be managed from a single pane of glass. Brokers can also be easily linked to form a global event mesh.

    Cloud

    Solace Event Broker is available as a managed service within Solace CLoud, A complete event streaming, management, and insights platform that’s available as a service in public, private, and on-premises environments.

     

    Within Solace Clould, Mission Control gives you access to event broker services, while we do all the heavy lifting to deploy, upgrade, patch, and operate your service. It’s engineered to be secure, resilient, and cost-optimized so you can focus on building event-driven applications. In addition, you can manage your event broker services whether they are located in the cloud or on-premises, easily visualize and design event meshes, and centralize the management of your event-driven system.

    • Centralized Management: Design, deploy, and operate your entire event-driven estate from a single console, creating meshes, rolling out services in any environment, and monitoring health in real time.

    • Security & Control: Keep data sovereignty with exclusive control of encryption keys and root certificates, integrate console and brokers with your IAM and monitoring systems, and assign granular user permissions across Dev and Prod.

    • Peace of Mind: Depend on 99.99 % uptime, multizone replication, and an industry-leading SLA while Solace’s experts handle engineering, upgrades, and support, freeing you to focus on building microservices.

    • Optimize Costs: Mix-and-match pay-as-you-go and annual plans while Solace-managed orchestration accelerates time-to-value and continually tunes services to cut maintenance spend.

    Important Resources

    Software

    Solace Event Broker: Software is a high-performance solution for public clouds, private clouds, and on-prem environments. Quick starts and VMs simplify deployment across:

    • Hypervisors: VMware, KVM, Hyper-V, Docker
    • Clouds: AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack
    • PaaS: Kubernetes, PCF, PKS, OpenShift​

    There are two editions of Solace Event Broker: Software. You can download the free standard edition or a free trial of enterprise edition on our downloads page.

    • Standard Edition: Free, full-featured, includes HA, supports all patterns
    • Enterprise Edition: Adds support, higher throughput, and more capacity
    Feature Standard Edition Enterprise Edition
    Cost Free Commercial license (90-day eval available)
    Production Deployment Yes (in specific configurations) Yes
    Client Connections Up to 1,000 Up to 200,000
    Message Spool Size 800 GB 6 TB
    Queued Messages Up to 240 million Up to 3 billion
    Message VPNs 1 5
    Ingress Rate Limited to 10,000 messages/sec Unthrottled
    High Availability (HA) Built-in Built-in
    Disaster Recovery (DR) Not included Included (with replication)
    Messaging Patterns Supported Pub/Sub, Queuing, Request/Reply, Streaming Same as Standard
    Dynamic Message Routing (DMR) Included Included
    Distributed Tracing Included Included
    Multi-Protocol Support AMQP, MQTT, REST, WebSocket, etc. Same as Standard
    Open APIs & Protocols Full access Full access

    Appliance

    Solace Event Broker: Appliance is a high-performance, rack-mounted device trusted by leading banks for real-time event distribution at scale.

    • Turnkey Deployment: Rack-mounted, easy to install and upgrade, with flexible blades for big data, cloud, and IoT.
    • High Availability: 99.999% uptime with chassis-based architecture, fast failover, and built-in replication.
    • Speed and Capacity: Purpose-built hardware enables massive throughput and low, predictable latency.
    • Guaranteed Messaging: 620K msgs/sec P2P, 5.5M with fan-out; 9.5 Gbps; 10B messages or 6 TB; 75μs at 140K/sec.
    • Direct Messaging: 12M msgs/sec P2P, 30M with fan-out; 80 Gbps; 20μs latency.
    • Safety and Compliance: Meets IEC 62368-1:2018, CSA C22.2 No. 62368-1:19, Model 3200, HS Code 8471.80.
    • Connectivity: 4x10GE and 8x10GE I/O cards; up to 30K JMS and 200K REST/IoT connections; 10G Ethernet, Fibre Channel, RS232.

    Considerations for Selecting a Form Factor

    • Infrastructure Requirements: Choose a form factor that aligns with your environment.
    • Operational Complexity: Cloud simplifies management; software offers control; appliances deliver max performance.
    • Scalability & Performance: Appliances excel in performance; cloud scales automatically; all form factors support queues.
    • Security & Compliance: Software/appliance offer direct control; cloud is SoC 2 compliant.
    • Cost: Balance infrastructure and operational costs across deployment models.