Introduction to Corda

A Corda Network is a peer-to-peer network of Nodes, each representing a party on the network. These Nodes run Corda applications (CorDapps), and transact between Nodes using public or confidential identities.

When one or more Nodes are involved in a transaction, the transaction must be notarised. Notaries are a specialised type of Node that provides uniqueness consensus by attesting that, for a given transaction, it has not already signed other transactions that consumes any of the proposed transaction’s input states.

Corda Enterprise

Corda Enterprise is a commercial edition of the Corda platform, specifically optimised to meet the privacy, security and throughput demands of modern day business. Corda Enterprise is interoperable and compatible with Corda open source and is designed for organisations with exacting requirements around quality of service and the network infrastructure in which they operate.

Corda Enterprise contains all the core Corda functionality, but also includes the Corda Firewall, support for high-availability Node and Notary deployments, and compatibility with hardware security modules (HSMs).

Corda Enterprise vs Corda open source: feature comparison

More details on Corda Enterprise features compared to Corda open source features follow below.

Corda Functionality

Node

Connectivity

Key storage

Vault databases

Notaries

Performance

Tooling

Support