SurrealDB

A Rust database combining documents, graph relations and vector search behind the SQL-like SurrealQL language. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.

Month
November 2026
Votes
0
Category
database engine
Developer
SurrealDB
Created by
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock, Jaime Morgan Hitchcock
First release
2022
License
BUSL-1.1
Open source
No
Pricing
Free, with paid plans
Website
https://surrealdb.com
Written in
Rust
Data model
Document, Graph, Relational, Search, Time-series, Vector
Storage layout
Document
Workload
Transactions (OLTP)
Analytics architecture
Not an analytics platform
Query language
SurrealQL
ACID transactions
Yes
Schema
Flexible
Deployment
Distributed cluster, Embedded, Managed cloud, Server
Scaling
Natively distributed
Create, read, update, delete
Create: moderate (Transactional record creation with index maintenance); Read: fast (Indexed records, graph traversal and vector search); Update: moderate (Record updates and patches within transactions); Delete: moderate (Transactional record and relation deletion)

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