Materialize documentation

Materialize is the live data layer for apps and AI agents.

To keep results up-to-date as new data arrives, Materialize incrementally updates results as it ingests data rather than recalculating results from scratch.

Materialize is available as:

• Materialize Cloud. Materialize Cloud is a fully-managed service for Materialize.

  • 🚀 To get started, sign up for a free trial account on Materialize Cloud and try out the Quickstart.

• Materialize Self-Managed. Deploy and operate Materialize in your Kubernetes environment. Whereas Materialize Cloud gives you a fully managed service, Materialize Self-Managed allows you to deploy Materialize in your own infrastructure.

  Self-managed Materialize is available as a paid Enterprise Edition and a free Community Edition:

  Feature	Enterprise Edition	Community Edition
  Maximum Usage Limits (Memory)	None	24 GiB
  Maximum Usage Limits (Disk)	None	48 GiB
  Support	Per terms of your license	Community slack or messenger app
  License	Enterprise License - Contact Us	BSL/Privacy Policy

  • 🚀 To get started, install self-managed and try out the Quickstart.

• Materialize Emulator. Materialize Emulator is an all-in-one Docker image that provides the fastest way to get hands-on experience with Materialize for local development.

  • 🚀 To get started, download and run Materialize Emulator and try out the Quickstart.