[themihai]

It says the database is open source but I can't find any link to the source code. Is both the client and server open source?

[bigfish24]

The core database that powers all the versions of Realm was open-sourced today here:

https://github.com/realm/realm-core

The various SDKs that use the core for each mobile platform have always been open source, such as realm-cocoa:

https://github.com/realm/realm-cocoa

[themihai]

> The core database that powers all the versions of Realm was open-sourced today here:

Ok, what about the server database?

[astigsen]

The server runs the exact same database. It is only the sync part that is proprietary.

[themihai]

> It is only the sync part that is proprietary.

Any reason for that? It's also doesn't look very straightforward how exactly the database is deployed and accessed on the server. As it stands now only the 'client' is open sourced but if someone wants to hosts its own `realm` database it still has a lot of work to do. I really find this misleading when various SAAS vendors claim they are open source when in fact they just provide you just a client to access their service. Nobody(almost) would use a `binary` client anyway.