Detailed comparison across 10 dimensions
Winner: Surrealdb
SurrealDB clearly comes out ahead of RisingWave on Staquest's weighted six-dimension score. SurrealDB has a free tier; RisingWave does not. RisingWave's paid plans start at $0.23/mo.
| Overview | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | hybrid | hybrid |
| Company | RisingWave Labs | SurrealDB Ltd. |
| Free Tier | ||
| Has API | ||
| Open Source | ||
| Learning Curve | - | - |
| Integration | - | - |
| Trending | Stable | Stable |
| GitHub Stars | - | - |
| Industries | Data & AnalyticsDevelopmentMedia & Entertainment | DevelopmentData & Analytics |
| Categories | databasedata-engineering | database |
| Website | Visit | Visit |
Surrealdb
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| Feature | risingwave | surrealdb |
|---|---|---|
| Standard Support | ||
| Annual Contract | ||
| Additional Support Options | ||
| Core Features | ||
| Cloud Rbac And Abac | ||
| Fully Hosted (Aws, Gcp, Azure) | ||
| Community Support | ||
| Fully Hosted Or Byoc | ||
| Daily Automated Backups | ||
| No Core Limits | ||
| Fault Tolerant Deployments | ||
| On-Prem / K8S | ||
| Horizontal Scalability | ||
| Pay-As-You-Go | ||
| Limited Compute Node Size | ||
| Pay-As-You-Go Or Annual Contract | ||
| Single-Tenant Storage | ||
| Premium Features | ||
| Social Authentication | ||
| Premium Support & Sla | ||
| Surreal Sidekick Ai Copilot | ||
| Quarterly Success Review | ||
| Team Collaboration | ||
| Up To 64 Cores | ||
| Vertical Scalability |
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On Staquest's weighted six-dimension scoring, SurrealDB comes out ahead overall, though RisingWave can be the better fit depending on your priorities — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown above.
SurrealDB offers a free tier; RisingWave does not currently list one.
SurrealDB scores higher on pricing value in Staquest's analysis. It is the highest-weighted dimension in this comparison.
RisingWave is open source. The feature comparison and dimension scores above cover the full breakdown.
