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SurrealDB vs RethinkDB: catalog facts
SurrealDB	RethinkDB
Freemium The database can be run yourself; a fully managed cloud service is also offered.	Free Free and open source under the Apache 2.0 licence.
Windows, Self-hosted, Command line	Windows, macOS, Linux, Self-hosted
Documents, graphs, vectors and relational data in one engine One query language for SQL, graph and vector search	Changefeeds push live query updates to apps Built-in sharding and replication
Business Source License rather than an OSI open-source license SurrealQL is its own language to learn	Releases are infrequent ReQL query language takes time to learn
Downloadable app, Self-hosted, Hosted service	Downloadable app, Self-hosted
Closed source	Open source
License: BUSL-1.1	License: Apache-2.0
Not stated if an account is needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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