Buying guide
| Classes | Features | ColdFusion10 Enterprise |
ColdFusion10 Standard |
ColdFusion9 Enterprise |
ColdFusion9 Standard |
ColdFusion8 Enterprise |
ColdFusion8 Standard |
Advanced Protocol support | Gateway architecture | Available | Restricted | Available | Restricted | Available | Restricted | Data management service | Available | Available | Available | Available | Available | Available | Data services messaging | Available | Available | Available | Available | Available | Available | Enterprise IM gateways (Sametime and XMPP) | Available | Restricted | Available | Restricted | Available | Restricted | Asynchronous CFML gateway | Available | Restricted | Available | Restricted | Available | Restricted | SMS gateway | Available | Restricted | Available | Restricted | Available | Restricted | JMS gateway | Available | Restricted | Available | Restricted | Available | Restricted | TCP/IP socket gateway | Available | Restricted | Available | Restricted | Available | Restricted | Directory Watcher gateway | Available | Restricted | Available | Restricted | Available | Restricted | Application Development | Object relational mapping (ORM) | Enhanced | Enhanced | Available | Available | Not Available | Not Available | ORM Text search | New | Not available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Advanced caching (ehcache) | Enhanced | Enhanced | Available | Available | Not Available | Not Available | Ajax user interface component | Available | Available | Enhanced | Enhanced | Available | Available | Ajax framework | Available | Available | Available | Available | Available | Available | Image manipulation | Available | Available | Available | Available | Available | Available | RSS/Atom feed creation and consumption | Available | Available | Available | Available | Available | Available | ZIP and JAR archive file manipulation | Available | Available | Available | Available | Available | Available | Database introspection | Available | Available | Available | Available | Available | Available | Custom server side chart styles | Available | Available | Available | Available | Available | Available | Server side charting and graphing | Available | Available | Available | Available | Available | Available | ColdFusion components (CFCs) | Enhanced | Enhanced | Enhanced | Enhanced | Available | Available | XML support | Available | Available | Available | Available | Available | Available | XPath support | New | New | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Web services (SOAP) | Enhanced | Enhanced | Available | Available | Available | Available | Built-in support for REST | New | New | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | File manipulation | Available | Available | Available | Available | Available | Available | .NET assembly support (DLL) | Available | Available | Available | Available | Available | Available | Java, servlet, and EJB connectivity | Available | Available | Available | Available | Available | Available | JDBC and ODBC | Available | Available | Available | Available | Available | Available | FTP/SFTP servers | Available | Available | Available | Available | Available | Available | Virtual file systems (RAM) | Enhanced | Enhanced | Available | Available | Not Available | Not Available | Virtual file systems (ZIP, JAR, FTP, SFTP) | New | New | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | * Multi-threaded CFML1 (CFTHREAD) | Available | Restricted | Available | Restricted | Available | Restricted | Database Client connection management | New | New | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Support for additional database types | New | New | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Database exception handling | Enhanced | Enhanced | Available | Available | Available | Available | Failover support for database | New | New | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Revamped scheduler engine | New | New | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Grouping of scheduled tasks | New | New | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Mis-fire and exception handling of scheduled tasks | New | Not available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Scheduled task priority | New | New | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Listeners for scheduled tasks | New | Not available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Cluster support for scheduled tasks | New | Not available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Chaining of scheduled tasks | New | Not available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Application specific scheduled tasks | New | Not available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Support for closures | New | New | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | CFC Auto constructor | New | New | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | CFC method chaining | New | New | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | For-in support for queries and lists | New | New | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Hotfix installer | New | New | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Instant notification for updates in CF Administrator | New | New | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | CFScript support | Enhanced | Enhanced | Enhanced | Enhanced | Available | Available | Flex/ AIR Lazy loading | New | New | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Document Services | MS Office 2010 PowerPoint file generation | New | Restricted | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | PDF file conversion from MS Office 2010 Word and MS Office 2010 PowerPoint | New | Restricted | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | MS Office 2010 Excel support | New | Restricted | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | PDF form processing | Available | Restricted | Available | Restricted | Available | Restricted | PDF document manipulation | Available | Restricted | Enhanced | Restricted | Available | Restricted | Server-side printing | Available | Restricted | Available | Restricted | Available | Restricted | Online presentation generation | Available | Restricted | Enhanced | Restricted | Available | Restricted | PDF file generation from HTML | Available | Restricted | Available | Restricted | Available | Restricted | Structured reporting | Available | Restricted | Available | Restricted | Available | Restricted | Enterprise Infrastructure | 64-bit support | Available | Available | Available | Available | Available | Not Available | Administrative user and role management | Available | Not available | Available | Not Available | Available | Not Available | Request limit management | Available | Not available | Available | Not Available | Available | Not Available | Operating system virtualization support2 | Available | Not available | Available | Not Available | Available | Not Available | High-scalability email engine | Available | Not available | Available | Not Available | Available | Not Available | Web-based multi-instance manager | Enhanced | Not available | Available | Not Available | Available | Not Available | Web-based cluster manager | Available | Not available | Available | Not Available | Available | Not Available | JEE package deployment (EAR/WAR) | Available | Not available | Available | Not Available | Available | Not Available | Multiple server instances | Enhanced | Not available | Available | Not Available | Available | Not Available | Instance clustering | Available | Not available | Available | Not Available | Available | Not Available | Enterprise database drivers | Available | Not available | Available | Not Available | Available | Not Available | ColdFusion archiving and deployment (CAR) | Available | Not available | Available | Not Available | Available | Not Available | HTML5 | HTML5 charts | New | Not available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Built-in HTML5 video player | New | New | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Fall back from HTML5 to Flash & vice-versa | New | New | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Skinning support for HTML5 videoplayer | New | New | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Support for events and Javascript interface for HTML5 video player | New | New | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Geo-location capability with CFMAP | New | New | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Suport for HTML5 input types | New | New | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | ** Support for websocket protocol on server3 | New | Restricted | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | **Interface for publish/ subscribe using web socket | New | Restricted | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Custom styles for HTML5 charts | New | Not available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Integrated Solutions | Embedded Apache Solr full-text search engine | Enhanced | Enhanced | Available | Available | Not Available | Not Available | Support for dynamic custom fields for Solr | New | New | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Data import handler for Solr | New | Not available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Adobe LiveCycle® Data Services ES integration | Available | Available | Available | Available | Available | Available | Eclipse™ based debugging | Available | Available | Available | Available | Available | Available | Flash Remoting | Available | Available | Enhanced | Enhanced | Available | Available | Adobe Dreamweaver® and Eclipse extensions | Enhanced | Enhanced | Enhanced | Enhanced | Available | Available | User-defined functions | Available | Available | Available | Available | Available | Available | Microsoft SharePoint web parts | Available | Available | Available | Available | Not Available | Not Available | Microsoft SharePoint single sign-on | Available | Available | Available | Available | Not Available | Not Available | Java™ portal integration (JSR-168, JSR-286, WSRP) | Available | Available | Available | Available | Not Available | Not Available | Email servers (POP and IMAP) | Available | Available | Available | Available | Not Available | Not Available | Support for Microsoft Exchange 2010 | New | New | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Microsoft Exchange server integration | Enhanced | Restricted | Available | Restricted | Available | Restricted | Directory servers (Active Directory and LDAP) | Available | Available | Available | Available | Available | Available | Apache Tomcat integration | New | New | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Revamped flash video-player | New | New | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Bi-directional Java integration | New | New | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Load Java classes from custom paths | New | New | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Create Java dynamic proxies from CFCs | New | New | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Invoke CFCs from Java classes | Enhanced | Enhanced | Available | Not Available | Available | Not Available | Tight integration with CFBuilder | Enhanced | Enhanced | Available | Available | Not Available | Not Available | Security | Windows NT® domain authentication | Available | Available | Available | Available | Available | Available | RSA FIPS 140–compliant strong cryptology | Available | Not available | Available | Not Available | Available | Not Available | Enterprise server security (sandboxing) | Available | Not available | Available | Not Available | Available | Not Available | Built-in functions to protect against XSS and CSRF | New | New | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Login mechanism | Enhanced | Enhanced | Available | Available | Available | Available | Session cookie management | Enhanced | Enhanced | Available | Available | Available | Available | Server manager and monitor | Desktop-based Server Manager | Enhanced | Not available | Available | Not Available | Not Available | Not Available | Web-based server administration | Enhanced | Enhanced | Available | Available | Available | Available | Administrator API | Enhanced | Enhanced | Available | Available | Available | Available | Compiled application deployment (source-less) | Available | Available | Available | Available | Available | Available | Server monitoring dashboard | Enhanced | Enhanced | Available | Available | Available | Available | Server monitoring API | Enhanced | Not available | Available | Not Available | Available | Not Available | * CFTHREAD is limited to two additional spawned threads in Standard edition |
** Data can be pushed to no more than five clients on Standard, unlimited on Enterprise |
# Restricted features in ColdFusion Standard Edition: Enterprise features run through the Enterprise Feature Router (EFR). These features run in the Standard edition. However, all features running through the EFR are limited to one shared simultaneous request. |
