Deploy and Host SurrealDB on Railway

SurrealDB is a multi-model database for documents, graphs and relational data, queried with SurrealQL over HTTP or WebSocket.

About Hosting SurrealDB

This template runs the official surrealdb/surrealdb:latest-dev image (the variant with a shell) on RocksDB storage in a persistent volume at /data. The root user is root; the password is the generated SURREAL_PASS variable on the service.

Common Use Cases

Backend database for web and mobile apps
Graph, document and time-series data in one engine
Real-time live queries over WebSocket

Dependencies for SurrealDB Hosting

One service with a volume; nothing else

Deployment Dependencies

SurrealDB on GitHub
Docker image

Why Deploy SurrealDB on Railway?

Railway gives you a public HTTPS URL, a persistent volume and automatic restarts with no server to maintain. Connect with wss:///rpc or https:// as user root and the password from the service variables.