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Red Hat sponsors this Open Source project and employs its core developers. Additionally, Red Hat offers subscriptions for a fully supported product, Red Hat Decision Manager, based on Drools.

Red Hat has:

  • Solution architects that can define the best architecture for your scope and demonstrate the product functioning;

  • Services team with consultants and architects to help deliver reliable production implementations with Red Hat PAM;

  • A 24/7 support team.

Community and product comparison

The community download delivers everything you would expect from an Open Source project, including all features. Both Red Hat Decision Manager and Red Hat Process Automation Manager are Red Hat products based on Drools. The subscription to these products fills the missing gaps for enterprise use. Both community and product use the same code base.

Drools Red Hat Decision Manager

Functionality

All features

Yes Includes all enterprise features too

Yes

All bugfixes

Yes Master branch only

Yes Supported maintenance branches too

Documentation

Yes

Yes

Backport bugfixes to maintenance branches

No Not released

Yes Released in maintenance releases

Security (CVE) watch for maintenance branches

No Eventually released from master branch only

Yes Released as backported bugfix

Testing

Unit testing

Yes

Yes On certification matrix

Integration testing

Yes

Yes On certification matrix

Stress testing

Yes

Yes

Performance testing and sizing

No

Yes

QA certification

No

Yes Cross matrix of OS’s, JDK’s, application containers, databases, …​ See supported configurations.

Help

Roadmap impact

Yes Use our forum, #{site.issueTracker}[issue tracker] or send a Pull Request

Yes Prioritized above community requests

Public questions

Yes Use StackOverflow

Yes Or call 24/7 support instead

Private 24/7 support

No

Yes By web or phone, guaranteed response time (SLA)

Red Hat consultancy, training and POC assistance

No

Yes Talk to your account manager

Release schedule

Beta/CR releases

Yes Usually every few weeks

Yes After Final community release

Stable releases

Yes Final usually every 3 months

Yes GA usually 2 months after community Final release (if it is productized)

Maintenance releases

No Use latest Beta/CR instead

Yes Usually every 6 weeks

One-off release for an urgent customer critical issue

No

Yes Also rolled up in the next maintenance release

Information

Open source (Apache License 2.0)

Yes

Yes but distribution available from customer portal only

Subscribers have access to the product maven repository, with the productized binaries. To migrate from the community to product binaries, simply add the customer maven repository and adjust the version numbers to include the -redhat suffix.

KIE features and the enterprise products overview

KIE Functionality Overview

Drools is a fully supported component (called Decision Manager) of the following products:

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Want to talk to the experts? Red Hat offers certified binaries with enterprise consulting. See services for more information.

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