When I prepared to Magento 2 Certified Solution Specialist exam, significant part of the questions were related with the differences between version 2.X Magento Enterprise (now being rebranded as “Magento Cloud“) and Magento 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 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.
