About StreamBase Developer and Enterprise Editions

StreamBase is available for free download. See the table below for a comparison of the free trial version and the Enterprise Edition. If you are currently using the StreamBase Enterprise Edition, do not install this trial Developer Edition, as it will replace your Enterprise Edition.

Existing Developer Edition users: Are you interested in evaluating production-level performance? Contact us for information about obtaining an evaluation copy of the Enterprise Edition from a StreamBase representative.

Performance Note

StreamBase is the industry’s fastest stream processing engine, benchmarked at greater than 500,000 messages per second per CPU with real world applications. Please note that the free trial is an interactive application development environment and is not configured for high performance. If you need to measure the performance of a StreamBase application, please contact us.

Side by Side: Free Edition and Paid Product
Feature Free 30-day Trial Paid Product
Supported Platforms
  • Microsoft® Windows™ 7 Professional, 32- and 64-bit
  • Windows Vista Business, 32- and 64-bit
  • Windows XP Professional, 32-bit
  • Windows Server 2008, 64-bit
  • Windows Server 2003, 32- and 64-bit
  • Mac OS X 10.6, 10.7 and 10.8, 64-bit
  • Red Hat™ Enterprise Linux 4 AS, 32-bit

Developer Edition kits are available in both 32-bit and 64-bit editions.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 AS (32-bit or 64-bit)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 AS (64-bit)
  • Novell SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (64-bit)
  • Microsoft® Windows™ 7 Professional (32- and 64-bit)
  • Windows Vista Business (32-bit or 64-bit)
  • Windows XP Professional (32-bit)
  • Windows Server 2008 (64-bit)
  • Windows Server 2003 (32- and 64-bit)
  • Oracle Solaris 10 for SPARC or Intel (64-bit; StreamBase Server and command-line environment only)
License Trial Subscription or Perpetual
Price Free Varies according to the scale of your Enterprise deployment.
StreamBase Studio development environment to create and test applications Yes Yes (not available on Solaris)
Disk-based Query Tables to persist application state No Yes
All other features Yes Yes