From a Raspberry Pi running predictive maintenance on factory floors to hyperscale AI platforms processing millions of embeddings per second — Absolute DB handles it all without reaching for another tool.
The first database built for the AI era from the ground up — not retrofitted. Store, search, and reason over vectors, documents, and structured data in a single query, without stitching together three separate systems.
SELECT id, title, HYBRID_SEARCH('customer refund policy', embedding_col) AS score
FROM knowledge_base
ORDER BY score DESC
LIMIT 5;HIPAA-compliant by default. PHI stays protected without compromising query performance — compliance is enforced at the database layer so your application code stays clean.
ALTER TABLE patients ALTER COLUMN ssn SET (hipaa_phi = true);
ALTER TABLE patients ALTER COLUMN diagnosis_code SET (hipaa_phi = true);
SELECT * FROM absdb_hipaa_access_report('2026-01-01', '2026-03-31');The only production-grade database that fits in 154 KB and runs on a Raspberry Pi Zero with 512 MB RAM. Full SQL, time-series, full-text search, and vector search — all in one binary, on the device.
SELECT
time_bucket('5 minutes', recorded_at) AS bucket,
AVG(temperature) AS avg_temp,
MAX(vibration_hz) AS peak_vibration
FROM machine_telemetry
WHERE recorded_at > NOW() - INTERVAL '1 hour'
GROUP BY bucket
ORDER BY bucket DESC;Replace eight specialised database tools with one. Eliminate database sprawl before it starts — vector search, full-text, time-series, graph, and OLTP in a single deployment that your existing ORM already speaks.
-- Each tenant can only see their own rows — enforced by the database
CREATE POLICY tenant_isolation ON orders
USING (tenant_id = current_setting('app.tenant_id')::uuid);
-- Live push to subscribed clients
SUBSCRIBE TO TABLE orders WHERE tenant_id = $1 AND status = 'pending';Full ACID transactions, high availability, zero-downtime operations. All the capability of Oracle or enterprise PostgreSQL — without the licence tax, the mandatory consultants, or the weekend upgrade windows.
ALTER TABLE runs non-blocking in the background — production tables stay fully available during column additions, index builds, and type changes.BEGIN;
INSERT INTO orders (customer_id, total) VALUES ($1, $2) RETURNING id;
SAVEPOINT order_created;
INSERT INTO order_items (order_id, sku, qty) VALUES ($3, $4, $5);
-- Something went wrong with this item only
ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT order_created;
-- Retry with corrected data
INSERT INTO order_items (order_id, sku, qty) VALUES ($3, $6, $5);
COMMIT;The SQLite upgrade path that doesn't require a separate server. Embed Absolute DB in any C/C++ application with a two-line include — and get vector search, full-text, graph traversal, JSON, and time-series that SQLite simply doesn't have.
#include "absolute.h"
int main(void) {
absdb_t *db;
absdb_result_t *res;
/* Open an in-process database — no server required */
absdb_open(":memory:", &db);
absdb_exec(db, "CREATE TABLE events (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, payload TEXT)");
absdb_exec(db, "INSERT INTO events (payload) VALUES ('hello, world')");
absdb_query(db, "SELECT * FROM events", &res);
while (absdb_result_next(res)) {
printf("id=%lld payload=%s\n",
absdb_result_int64(res, 0),
absdb_result_text(res, 1));
}
absdb_result_free(res);
/* Expose as a PostgreSQL-compatible server — one flag */
/* absdb_serve(db, "0.0.0.0", 5432); */
absdb_close(db);
return 0;
}