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Neo4j Community Edition vs SurrealDB: catalog facts
Neo4j Community Edition	SurrealDB
Free The Community Edition is free; Neo4j sells managed and enterprise offerings separately.	Freemium The database can be run yourself; a fully managed cloud service is also offered.
Windows, Self-hosted	Windows, Self-hosted, Command line
Native graph storage for connected data Self-managed, runs on your own hardware	Documents, graphs, vectors and relational data in one engine One query language for SQL, graph and vector search
Some features are reserved for paid enterprise and cloud products Graph model and query language take time to learn	Business Source License rather than an OSI open-source license SurrealQL is its own language to learn
Downloadable app, Self-hosted	Downloadable app, Self-hosted, Hosted service
Open source	Closed source
License: GPL-3.0	License: BUSL-1.1
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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