Designed so every developer and business can start at zero cost, without ever hitting a ceiling. One binary — your licence key unlocks capabilities.
No sign-up · No telemetry · No nags
Contact licensing@absolutedb.com for revenue threshold queries
Contact: sales@absolutedb.com
Contact: enterprise@absolutedb.com
After purchase you receive a key in the format PRO-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX or ENT-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX.
./build/absdb-server \
--license-key=PRO-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXSimplest for testing. Key is visible in ps aux output.
export ADB_LICENSE_KEY=PRO-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX
./build/absdb-serverKey is not visible in process listing — preferred for production.
sudo systemctl edit absdb
# Add under [Service]:
[Service]
Environment="ADB_LICENSE_KEY=PRO-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX"
sudo systemctl restart absdbdocker run -d \
-e ADB_LICENSE_KEY=PRO-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX \
-p 5433:5433 -p 8080:8080 \
absdb/absdb:7.5.2# Health endpoint
curl -s http://localhost:8080/health
# → {"healthy":true,"version":"7.5.2","status":"running"}
# Via psql
psql -h localhost -p 5433 -U $(whoami) -c "SELECT absdb_version();"
# absdb_version
# ───────────────
# 7.5.2| Feature Category | Community | SME Free* | Professional | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Core Capabilities | ||||
| Unified Query Core (SQL + Vector + Graph) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Data Elasticity | 10 GB | 5 GB | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Simultaneous Connections | 10 | 500 | Unlimited | 16M+ Virtual Sessions |
| Commercial Application | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Professional Tier | ||||
| DM Data Vault Security | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| High Availability (Zero-Downtime Replication) | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Enterprise Transport (TLS 1.3 / gRPC / Redis) | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Deep Observability (Prometheus / OTel) | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Identity Management (SSO / SAML / OIDC) | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Advanced Privacy (Dynamic Masking / RLS) | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Immutable Audit Logging | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Continuous Protection (PITR / Incremental) | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cloud-Native Orchestration (K8s / Terraform) | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Enterprise Tier | ||||
| Autonomous Clustering (Raft-S Logic) | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Global Geometry (Geo-Routing / CRDT) | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Hardware-Level Encryption (KMS / HSM) | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Hyper-Isolated Multi-Tenancy | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Petabyte Tiered Storage Architecture | — | — | — | ✓ |
| RAID-S Distributed Compute Fabric | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Adaptive Workload Governor | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Dedicated 24/7 Priority Engineering | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Monthly Commitment | ||||
| Price | Free | Free | $49/mo/server | $499/mo/cluster |
*SME Free: For commercial businesses with annual revenue under USD $1,000,000. Contact licensing@absolutedb.com for revenue-threshold queries.
Cloud providers and managed DBaaS operators are explicitly welcome under standard Professional or Enterprise licences.
Contact partnerships@absolutedb.com for co-marketing.
Yes. Community is free for personal use, education, and open-source projects — non-commercial only. For commercial use, the SME Free tier is free for businesses with annual revenue under USD $1,000,000. No sign-up, no telemetry, no expiry on either tier.
No. AWS, GCP, Azure, and any managed DBaaS operator can offer Absolute DB under a standard Professional or Enterprise licence. No separate cloud provider agreement is required.
Keys are in the format PRO-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX (Professional) or ENT-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX (Enterprise). Pass via --license-key=<key> or $ADB_LICENSE_KEY env var.
Email sales@absolutedb.com for a 30-day trial key. No credit card required during trial.
Professional is per server (one running absdb-server process). Enterprise is per cluster. No per-CPU or per-seat fees.