Legal questions about SurrealDB

This page contains frequently asked questions about SurrealDB from a legal perspective.

What is the license for SurrealDB?

Source code for SurrealDB is variously licensed under a number of different licenses. A copy of each license can be found in each repository on GitHub. For more information on the licenses view the license details page.

Do I need to purchase a license for development use?

No! SurrealDB is free to use for all development, pre-production and production use.

Do I need to purchase a license for production use?

No! SurrealDB is free to use for all development, pre-production and production use.

What does the license restrict you from doing?

You can use and scale SurrealDB to any number of nodes, and can run it as a server or embed it in to your applications (whether you ship those applications to customers or run them as a service). You can even run it as a service internally, to your employees, contractors, and subsidiary companies. The only thing that you are not able to do is offer a commercial, hosted version of SurrealDB as a service (a database-as-a-service) without buying a license.