Detailed comparison across 10 dimensions
Winner: Surrealdb
SurrealDB clearly comes out ahead of Materialize on Staquest's weighted six-dimension score. SurrealDB has a free tier; Materialize does not.
| Overview | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | hybrid | hybrid |
| Company | Materialize Inc. | SurrealDB Ltd. |
| Free Tier | ||
| Has API | ||
| Open Source | ||
| Learning Curve | - | - |
| Integration | - | - |
| Trending | Stable | Stable |
| GitHub Stars | - | - |
| Industries | Data & AnalyticsDevelopmentMedia & EntertainmentSales & CRM | DevelopmentData & Analytics |
| Categories | databasedata-engineering | database |
| Website | Visit | Visit |
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| Feature | materialize | surrealdb |
|---|---|---|
| Always-On Encryption | ||
| Additional Support Options | ||
| Auto-Scaling | ||
| Cloud Rbac And Abac | ||
| Automated, No Downtime Upgrades | ||
| Community Support | ||
| Backups And Recovery | ||
| Daily Automated Backups | ||
| Datadog & Grafana Monitoring | ||
| Fault Tolerant Deployments | ||
| Dbt Adapter | ||
| Horizontal Scalability | ||
| Dedicated Account Team | ||
| Limited Compute Node Size | ||
| Fully-Managed Saas | ||
| Single-Tenant Storage | ||
| Fully-Managed Saas Solution | ||
| Social Authentication | ||
| Github Action | ||
| Standard Support | ||
| Guided Onboarding And Setup | ||
| Surreal Sidekick Ai Copilot | ||
| High Availability (Ha) And Disaster Recovery (Dr) | ||
| Team Collaboration | ||
| Materialize Console | ||
| Vertical Scalability | ||
| Matty - Our Ai Chatbot | ||
| Pay-As-You-Go Pricing | ||
| Prepaid Spend With Volume Discounts | ||
| Prometheus Sql Exporter |
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Dashes mean the feature isn't listed in our data. The tool may still support it.
On Staquest's weighted six-dimension scoring, SurrealDB comes out ahead overall, though Materialize can be the better fit depending on your priorities — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown above.
SurrealDB offers a free tier; Materialize does not currently list one.
Materialize is open source. The feature comparison and dimension scores above cover the full breakdown.
