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.
What’s new!
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Self-Managed v26! For details, see Release Notes. To upgrade from v25 to v26, you must upgrade first to v25.2.16+
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New Terraforms for Self-Managed! For details, see Terraform releases.
Materialize is available as:
| Offering | Description | Get Started | |||||||||||||||
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| Materialize Cloud | Materialize Cloud is a fully-managed service for Materialize. | 🚀 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:
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🚀 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. | 🚀 Download and run Materialize Emulator and try out the Quickstart. |