About the OpenSplice DDS Community Edition

OpenSplice DDS is a high-performance messaging technology featuring record breaking throughput and real-time determinism even under the most extreme traffic conditions. The OpenSplice Community Edition is our full-featured genuine Open Source, genuinely free implementation of the OMG-DDS standard.

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This edition provides full support for content-based subscriptions (also known as continuous queries in the CEP domain), distributed data persistence, and transparent fault-management. As such It provides a fully compliant implementation of the DCPS Layer specified in the OMG DDS v1.2 specification. Along with its unique real-time networking, it supports the standardized interoperability wire-protocol specified in the OMG DDSI v2.1 standard.

The Community Edition is available as Open Source and is licensed under LGPL, our Enterprise Edition is also available as Open Source under LGPLv3. Support for Community Edition is only available through the Open Source community, and our forum. If you, your company, or your project requires professional support services for OpenSplice DDS you can subscribe to our Enterprise Edition.

OpenSplice DDS v5.5

The OpenSplice Community Edition remains at 5.5.1 and our policy going forward will be to have the OpenSplice DDS Community Edition one major release behind the Enterprise Edition. The table below outlines the key differences between OpenSplice DDS Enterprise and Community.

 

Community v5

Enterprise v6

Licensing Terms LGPLv3 Yes Yes
PrismTech Commercial License No Yes

Source Code Included

DDS Core Yes Yes

Royalty Free Distribution

DDS Core under LGPLv3 Yes Yes

Core

DDS / DCPS

Yes

Yes

DDS / DLRL

No

Yes

DDSI2

Yes

Yes

Paradigms

RMI

No

Yes

Streams

No

Yes

Deployment Architecture

Federated (Shared Memory)

Yes

Yes

Standalone (Daemonless)

No

Yes

Communication

 

RTNetworking

Yes

Yes

SecureRTNetworking

No

Yes

DDSI2E

No

Yes

Integration (connectors)

DBMSConnect

No

Yes

Gateway

No

Yes

Tools

Modeler

No

Yes

Tuner

No

Yes

Tester

No

Yes

Configurator

Yes

Yes

MmStat

Yes

Yes

WireShark

Yes

Yes

Record and Replay

No

Yes

Languages

C, C++, Java, C#

Yes

Yes

Platforms

Windows 64 bit

No

Yes

Windows 32 bit

Yes

Yes

Windows CE

No

Yes

Linux 64 bit

Yes

Yes

Linux 32 bit

Yes

Yes

Solaris

Yes

Yes

RTOS

No

Yes