Your questions,answered
Source code for SurrealDB is variously licensed under a number of different licences. A copy of each licence can be found in each repository on GitHub.
- Libraries and SDKs, each located in its own distinct repository, are released under either the Apache License 2.0 or MIT License.
- Certain core database components, each located in its own distinct repository, are released under the Apache License 2.0.
- Core database code for SurrealDB is released under the Business Source License 1.1.
The code licensed under the Business Source License is free to use, modify and self-host, including in production, and the source code is freely available. The one thing the licence reserves is running SurrealDB as a database service for third parties, where they create and manage their own schemas or tables, which needs a commercial licence from SurrealDB Ltd.
THE PLATFORM
Everything an application and its agents know. Five surfaces, one engine.
Database
Document, graph, vector, time-series and relational in one engine.
Agent Memory
What an agent learns, with its source and its time, in the same engine.
Cloud
Managed clusters in the regions you choose, scaled on demand.
Studio
Query, explore and design the schema from the browser.
MCP
Every model that speaks MCP reaches the database and the memory directly.
IN PRODUCTION
Trusted at scale. Samsung, Nvidia, Verizon, Tencent, and Walmart run on SurrealDB.
14,000+
Developers building on SurrealDB Cloud
4M+
Developers building on SurrealDB worldwide
FROM THE TEAMS
SurrealDB gives us a foundation where we can unify semantic search, knowledge graphs, and AI-driven decision making without stitching together multiple systems. Collapsing responsibility into SurrealDB has become our default engineering posture.
VP of Engineering, Later
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Need a commercial DBaaS or enterprise agreement? SurrealDB is free to use in your own applications, in development and production. Enterprise licensing, security and support, from the team that builds SurrealDB.
