# RelataDB

> RelataDB is a governed temporal knowledge database that collapses the multi-database stack — relational, graph, vector, full-text search, and audit — into a single Rust binary. It is bi-temporal and provenance-bearing by default, enforces cell-level governance in the query path, and speaks the wire protocols your existing clients already use (Postgres/pgvector, S3, MongoDB, Redis, ClickHouse, Neo4j/Bolt, Arrow Flight, plus HTTP/gRPC/MCP/SPARQL). Built by ZySec AI, the frontier connected intelligence company from Abu Dhabi.

RelataDB turns messy, sensitive, multi-source data into one connected, trustworthy, provable picture. You do not write `CREATE TABLE`; you declare an ontology (`ObjectType`, `EventType`, `LinkType`, `ActionType`) and the storage layout, planner, SDKs, and protocol doors all derive from those declarations. Every row carries four timestamps (`valid_from`, `valid_to`, `system_from`, `system_to`), a provenance link, and an audit entry.

Publisher: ZySec AI (https://www.zysec.ai) — a frontier connected intelligence company headquartered in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. RelataDB is a ZySec AI product.

Published consumer SDKs: Python (`relata-sdk`), TypeScript (`@zysec-ai/relata-sdk`), Go (`github.com/relatadb/sdk-go`). An internal/reference Rust client exists in the engine but is not published as a consumer SDK.

## Section overviews
- [Architecture](https://relatadb.dev/docs/architecture): index of every architecture page.
- [Concepts](https://relatadb.dev/docs/concepts): index of every concept page.
- [Guides](https://relatadb.dev/docs/guides): index of every operational guide.
- [SDKs](https://relatadb.dev/docs/sdks): Python / TypeScript / Go client overview.
- [Use cases](https://relatadb.dev/docs/use-cases): vertical playbooks (AML, LEA, telecom, maritime, cyber, OSINT, governed RAG).
- [Reference](https://relatadb.dev/docs/reference): full API, protocol, and configuration reference.

## Architecture & concepts
- [How it works](https://relatadb.dev/docs/architecture/how-it-works): conceptual mental model — the journey of a row from ingest to query.
- [Architecture overview](https://relatadb.dev/docs/architecture/overview): the five planes, deployment profiles, and design invariants.
- [Data flow](https://relatadb.dev/docs/architecture/data-flow): the eager/lazy ingest split and the query path.
- [SmartIngest](https://relatadb.dev/docs/architecture/smartingest): deterministic identity detection and the honest boundary with general NER.
- [Jobs & triggers](https://relatadb.dev/docs/architecture/jobs-and-triggers): every background work item is a typed Job — what they are and what triggers them.
- [Data model](https://relatadb.dev/docs/architecture/data-model): ontology primitives, bi-temporal row shape, canonical identifier types.
- [Storage engine](https://relatadb.dev/docs/architecture/storage): object-store native, WAL, Parquet segments, three-tier cache, tamper-evident manifests.
- [Query engine](https://relatadb.dev/docs/architecture/query-engine): parse, plan, cost-based optimize, streaming execute.

## Getting started
- [Introduction](https://relatadb.dev/docs): what RelataDB is and the problem it solves.
- [Quickstart](https://relatadb.dev/docs/quickstart): running in 5 minutes.
- [Installation](https://relatadb.dev/docs/installation): Docker, binary, Kubernetes.
- [Relata vs others](https://relatadb.dev/docs/concepts/relata-vs-others): mapped to Postgres, Neo4j, Pinecone, and agent-memory tools.

## Concepts
- [Ontology & schema](https://relatadb.dev/docs/concepts/ontology)
- [Bi-temporal](https://relatadb.dev/docs/concepts/bitemporal)
- [Identity resolution](https://relatadb.dev/docs/concepts/identity)
- [Governance](https://relatadb.dev/docs/concepts/governance)
- [Provenance](https://relatadb.dev/docs/concepts/provenance)
- [Agent memory](https://relatadb.dev/docs/concepts/agent-memory)
- [Hybrid search](https://relatadb.dev/docs/concepts/hybrid-search)

## Operate
- [Ingestion & SmartIngest](https://relatadb.dev/docs/guides/ingestion)
- [Jobs, workflows & detection](https://relatadb.dev/docs/guides/jobs-workflows)
- [Configuration](https://relatadb.dev/docs/guides/configuration) · [Security](https://relatadb.dev/docs/guides/security) · [Multi-tenancy](https://relatadb.dev/docs/guides/multi-tenancy)

## Reference
- [Protocols](https://relatadb.dev/docs/reference/protocols) · [MCP tools](https://relatadb.dev/docs/reference/mcp-tools) · [SQL reference](https://relatadb.dev/docs/reference/sql) · [Env variables](https://relatadb.dev/docs/reference/env-vars) · [Limits](https://relatadb.dev/docs/reference/limits)

## Other
- [Architecture brief (slides)](https://relatadb.dev/architecture.html)
- [Docs home](https://relatadb.dev/docs)
- [Main site](https://relatadb.dev)