When I prepared to Magento 2 Certified Solution Specialist exam, significant part of the questions were related with the differences between version Magento 2 Enterprise (now being rebranded as “Magento Cloud“) and Magento 2 Community (rebranded as “Magento Open Source“).
While there are articles and blog posts around comparing Magento 2 editions, I have found that most of them do not include all the differences and sometimes even provide incorrect information. A bit surprising that Magento Inc. itself hasn’t bothered to make a comparison list to stress the extra value that Enterprise/Cloud provides over Community/Open Source. So I spent fair bit of time and prepared full list of Magento 2 Enterprise Edition only features. The goal was to produce full, but concise document, kind of a cheat sheet and the result is below.
| # | Feature | Category | Comment | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Database Split | Performance & Scalability | 3 separate master databases for product, order management, and checkout, not supported in MECE | http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.0/config-guide/multi-master/multi-master.html |
| 2 | RabbitMQ messaging system (Message Queues) | Performance & Scalability | Use of open-source RabbitMQ messaging system | http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.1/install-gde/prereq/install-rabbitmq.html |
| 3 | Support utilities | Operations | Set of utilities to make EE support easier | http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.0/config-guide/cli/config-cli-subcommands-spt-util.html |
| 4 | Advanced Search (Solr or Elastic Search) | Shopper UX | Advanced site search – Solr (2.0) or Elastic (2.1) | http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.1/config-guide/elasticsearch/es-overview.html |
| 5 | Store Credits | Marketing | Credits on account of customers | http://docs.magento.com/m2/ee/user_guide/sales/credit-configure.html |
| 6 | Gift Cards | Marketing | Support of Gift Cards | http://docs.magento.com/m2/ee/user_guide/catalog/product-gift-card.html |
| 7 | Gift Message | Shopper UX | Support of Gift Message | http://docs.magento.com/m2/ee/user_guide/sales/gift-options.html?Highlight=Gift%20Message |
| 8 | Private Sales and Events | Marketing | http://docs.magento.com/m2/ee/user_guide/marketing/events-private-sales.html | |
| 9 | Rewards & Loyalty | Marketing | Loyalty program | http://docs.magento.com/m2/ee/user_guide/marketing/rewards-loyalty.html |
| 10 | Visual Merchandiser | Site management | Advanced products sorting | http://docs.magento.com/m2/ee/user_guide/configuration/catalog/visual-merchandiser.html |
| 11 | Advanced CMS | Site management | Content hierarchy, staging, campaigns | http://docs.magento.com/m2/ee/user_guide/content.html |
| 12 | Customer segments | Marketing | Can be used to deliver content, promotions, prices | http://docs.magento.com/m2/ee/user_guide/marketing/customer-segments.html |
| 13 | Automated product relationship rules | Site management | Cross-sells, Up-sells, Related | http://docs.magento.com/m2/ee/user_guide/marketing/product-related-rules.html |
| 14 | Custom customer attributes | Marketing | Ability to create custom customer attributes | http://docs.magento.com/m2/ee/user_guide/stores/attributes-customer.html |
| 15 | Extended Administrator Roles and Privileges | Site management | Like restrict admin user per website | http://docs.magento.com/m2/ee/user_guide/system/permissions.html |
| 16 | Advanced B2B functionality | B2B | From version 2.2 | |
| 17 | Returned Merchandise Authorisation (RMA) | Operations | http://docs.magento.com/m2/ee/user_guide/sales/returns.html | |
| 18 | Google Tag manager Support | Marketing | Support of GTM | http://docs.magento.com/m2/ee/user_guide/marketing/google-tag-manager.html |
| 19 | Vendor support | Operations | Official 24/7 support from Magento Inc. | |
| 20 | Product Category Permissions – by Customer Group/Website | Marketing | Show product categories by customer group and website | http://docs.magento.com/m2/ee/user_guide/catalog/category-permissions.html |
| 21 | Order by SKU | Shopper UX | Allows customers to add products by SKU (good for B2B) | http://docs.magento.com/m2/ee/user_guide/sales/order-by-sku.html |
| 22 | Multiple wishlists | Shopper UX | http://docs.magento.com/m2/ee/user_guide/marketing/wishlist-update.html | |
| 23 | Rule-based Email Reminders | Marketing | Can be used for adandoned shopping cart recovery | http://docs.magento.com/m2/ee/user_guide/marketing/email-reminder-rules-create.html |
| 24 | Archives | Performance & Scalability | Possibility to achive orders, invoices, shipment, credit memos to improve performance | http://docs.magento.com/m2/ee/user_guide/sales/order-archive.html |
| 25 | Cybersource, eWAY, Worldpay support | Payment | Out of the box support of these payment methods | http://docs.magento.com/m2/ee/user_guide/payment/gateways.html |
| 26 | Bluefoot (2.2) | Site management | Advanced CMS editor | |
| 27 | Banners | Marketing | Built in banner management system | http://docs.magento.com/m2/ee/user_guide/cms/banners.html |
| 28 | Gift Registries | Shopper UX | Ability to create and share list of gifts for special occasion | http://docs.magento.com/m2/ee/user_guide/marketing/gift-registries.html |
For most lines I have added a category and a reference to Magento 2 official documentation where you can go to check for more details.
This table is also available on Google Docs.
While I did my best to list all the features, if you know any Magento Enterprise Edition feature missed – your comment to this post will be much appreciated.
