BIRT iHub System licensing supports running BIRT iHub with sets of features grouped as license options. You enable BIRT iHub System options using one or more of the following types of license models:
CPU Core
Specifies the maximum number of CPU Cores that BIRT iHub System can use. Any number of users can access the licensed options on the system provided adequate licensing and capacity exists.
Work Unit (WU)
Specifies BIRT iHub features and functionality using an aggregate model. This plan defines each BIRT iHub System resource as a work unit.
Similar to CPU Core licensing, but defined at a more granular level. With Work Unit Licensing, the customer can license just the precise amount of capacity needed for application requirements. Any number of users can access the licensed options provided sufficient capacity has been purchased.
Capacity Edition
A BIRT on Demand licensing option that provides a pre-packaged amount of dedicated capacity for a customer application. With instance licensing, the customer does not need to count named users. Multiple instances can be combined to meet capacity needs.
Subscription
A monthly or annual payment option that permits the use of the licensed software that includes maintenance. Offered with some of the other licensing models.
A subscription license is not a perpetual license. Once the subscription term expires, the software cannot be used.
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Some products are offered as a Software as a Service (SaaS) option, providing customers with a solution without incurring the acquisition and management costs of hardware and traditional perpetual licenses.
BIRT Analytics
A combination of a base license, a data-volume component measured in data rows, and a specified number of named-user licenses.
Packages
Some options are offered as packages to customers for convenience and cost‑saving benefits. These packages can be used in conjunction with individually selected options.
In a CPU Core and Work Unit licensing, Actuate currently uses the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) standard benchmark for measuring machine capacity to establish the value of iHub’s performance on any given system.
CPU Core