<h2><imgheight="20"src="https://github.com/surrealdb/surrealdb/blob/main/img/whatissurreal.svg?raw=true"> What is SurrealDB?</h2>
SurrealDB is an end-to-end cloud native database for web, mobile, serverless, jamstack, backend, and traditional applications. SurrealDB reduces the development time of modern applications by simplifying your database and API stack, removing the need for most server-side components, allowing you to build secure, performant apps quicker and cheaper. SurrealDB acts as both a database and a modern, realtime, collaborative API backend layer. SurrealDB can run as a single server or in a highly-available, highly-scalable distributed mode - with support for SQL querying from client devices, GraphQL, ACID transactions, WebSocket connections, structured and unstructured data, graph querying, full-text indexing, geospatial querying, and row-by-row permissions-based access.
View the [features](https://surrealdb.com/features), the latest [releases](https://surrealdb.com/releases), the product [roadmap](https://surrealdb.com/roadmap), and [documentation](https://surrealdb.com/docs).
Docker can be used to manage and run SurrealDB database instances without the need to install any command-line tools. The SurrealDB docker container contains the full command-line tools for importing and exporting data from a running server, or for running a server itself.
For just getting started with a development server running in memory, you can pass the container a basic initialization to set the user and password as root and enable logging.
We would <imgwidth="15"src="https://github.com/surrealdb/surrealdb/blob/main/img/love.svg?raw=true"> for you to get involved with SurrealDB development! If you wish to help, you can learn more about how you can contribute to this project in the [contribution guide](CONTRIBUTING.md).
For security issues, view our [vulnerability policy](https://github.com/surrealdb/surrealdb/security/policy), view our [security policy](https://surrealdb.com/legal/security), and kindly email us at [security@surrealdb.com](mailto:security@surrealdb.com) instead of posting a public issue on GitHub.
Source code for SurrealDB is variously licensed under a number of different licenses. A copy of each license can be found in [each repository](https://github.com/surrealdb).
- Libraries and SDKs, each located in its own distinct repository, are released under either the [Apache License 2.0](https://github.com/surrealdb/license/blob/main/APL.txt) or [MIT License](https://github.com/surrealdb/license/blob/main/MIT.txt).
- Certain core database components, each located in its own distinct repository, are released under the [Apache License 2.0](https://github.com/surrealdb/license/blob/main/APL.txt).
- Core database code for SurrealDB, located in [this repository](https://github.com/surrealdb/surrealdb), is released under the [Business Source License 1.1](/LICENSE).
For more information, see the [licensing information](https://github.com/surrealdb/license).