[tobiemh]

Hi AtNightWeCode, we're just a team of 2 developers at the moment, and completely bootstrapped. This is only our initial release, and we have a long journey ahead of us. We realise there is lots of work to do. It would be great to get an understanding of what you mean in more depth :) ! With regards to scalability and high-availability, in distributed mode you run SurrealDB on top of TiKV (and soon FoundationDB), so we don't claim to provide this functionality ourselves (yet).

With regards to the license we wanted SurrealDB to basically be open source, but with the only limitation of not being able to provide a Database as a Service platform. So in a business or enterprise use, there is no limit at all. You can run SurrealDB with as many nodes as you want, and as many users as you want; you can provide a hosted database internally, or to employees, contractors, or subsidiary companies. The only limitation is providing a paid-for, hosted, SurrealDB database platform.

After 4 years, all of our code becomes licensed with Apache 2.0 license.

In addition, all of our libraries, client SDKs, and many of the core components used in the database are completely Apache 2.0 or MIT licensed (https://surrealdb.com/opensource).

[AtNightWeCode]

The license is not really the big issue.