Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/rathole-org/rathole/vs/surrealdb/surrealdb
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/rathole-org/rathole/vs/surrealdb/surrealdb.md
Description: rathole and surrealdb share 4 technologies: Tokio, tracing, console-subscriber, and tracing-subscriber. Both are written in Rust.

# rathole vs surrealdb

rathole and surrealdb share 4 technologies: Tokio, tracing, console-subscriber, and tracing-subscriber. Both are written in Rust.

- [rathole-org/rathole](https://seerepo.com/r/rathole-org/rathole): A lightweight and high-performance reverse proxy for NAT traversal, written in Rust. An alternative to frp and ngrok.
- [surrealdb/surrealdb](https://seerepo.com/r/surrealdb/surrealdb): A scalable, distributed, collaborative, document-graph database, for the realtime web

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: Tokio, tracing, console-subscriber, tracing-subscriber
- Only in rathole: None
- Only in surrealdb: axum, SurrealDB, quick_cache, object_store, axum-extra, async-graphql, wasmtime, tower, axum-server, dialoguer, jsonwebtoken, argon2, hmac, pbkdf2, bcrypt, ed25519-dalek, scrypt, rmcp, ammonia, schemars, OpenTelemetry, opentelemetry-otlp, tracing-opentelemetry, opentelemetry-http, tracing-appender

## Side by side

| | rathole | surrealdb |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 4,449 lines written, 17 code files | 1,528,442 lines written, 2,129 code files |
| Who writes it | 0% of its commits signed by AI | 1.4% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code and Cursor |
| Activity | Last push August 23, 2026, 234 commits, 14,432 stars | Last push November 3, 2026, 5,865 commits, 33,290 stars |
| Tests | 2 test files | 577 test files. 30.3% of its code files have a test that imports them |

- Size: Lines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
- Who writes it: A commit counts as AI's when it carries its signature: a Co-Authored-By line, its author name or the merge of its branch.
- Activity: From GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
- Tests: The files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.

## Frequently asked questions

### Which is bigger, rathole or surrealdb?

surrealdb, with 1,528,442 lines written; rathole has 4,449.

The proof: [surrealdb/surrealdb's code at commit 9577ac5](https://github.com/surrealdb/surrealdb/tree/9577ac5f0caa60a39d5a334e9352aed0e232f9e6)

### Which has more GitHub stars, rathole or surrealdb?

surrealdb, with 33,290 stars; rathole has 14,432.

The proof: [surrealdb/surrealdb on GitHub](https://github.com/surrealdb/surrealdb)

### Which has more tests, rathole or surrealdb?

surrealdb, with 577 test files; rathole has 2.

The proof: [surrealdb/surrealdb's code at commit 9577ac5](https://github.com/surrealdb/surrealdb/tree/9577ac5f0caa60a39d5a334e9352aed0e232f9e6)

### Which was updated more recently, rathole or surrealdb?

surrealdb: its last push was on November 3, 2026, and rathole's on August 23, 2026.

The proof: [surrealdb/surrealdb's commits on GitHub](https://github.com/surrealdb/surrealdb/commits)

### Which has more commits signed by AI, rathole or surrealdb?

surrealdb: an AI signed 1.4% of its commits, with Claude Code and Cursor.

The proof: [the commits each tool signed in surrealdb/surrealdb](https://seerepo.com/r/surrealdb/surrealdb/ai)

## Sources

- rathole-org/rathole: Read on November 9, 2026, at commit a292f7e (https://github.com/rathole-org/rathole/tree/a292f7ed5402f840415fc6a53827da2f34337856)
- surrealdb/surrealdb: Read on November 7, 2026, at commit 9577ac5 (https://github.com/surrealdb/surrealdb/tree/9577ac5f0caa60a39d5a334e9352aed0e232f9e6)

## What is your repo built with?

Any public repo, with no account: https://seerepo.com/r/owner/repo/built, with the owner and name it has on GitHub.