---
title: "Stop choosing: SurrealDB launch week, 12-16 October"
description: "Databases have always forced a choice. Stop choosing."
url: https://surrealdb.com/stop-choosing
---

# Stop choosing.

Databases have always forced a choice: speed or durability, in-memory or persistent, memory or accuracy, simplicity or scale, transactions or speed. The answer is always

Yes.

Speed or durability?

Stop choosing.

Yes.

[Monday: Speed or durability?](https://surrealdb.com/stop-choosing#dates)

In-memory or persistent?

Stop choosing.

Yes.

[Monday: In-memory or persistent?](https://surrealdb.com/stop-choosing#dates)

Memory or accuracy?

Stop choosing.

Yes.

[Tuesday: Memory or accuracy?](https://surrealdb.com/stop-choosing#dates)

Simplicity or scale?

Stop choosing.

Yes.

[Wednesday: Simplicity or scale?](https://surrealdb.com/stop-choosing#dates)

Transactions or speed?

Stop choosing.

Yes.

[Thursday: Transactions or speed?](https://surrealdb.com/stop-choosing#dates)

SQL or SurrealQL?

Stop choosing.

Yes.

[Thursday: SQL or SurrealQL?](https://surrealdb.com/stop-choosing#dates)

12-16 October

Be first to every answer.

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