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March 30, 2023
In this article, we will explore the similarities and differences between PostgreSQL and SurrealQL. We will also see how SurrealQL can overcome some of the limitations that relational databases have.
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March 20, 2023
We are thrilled to announce that Salvador Gironès has joined SurrealDB! Salvador helped build and scale the Netlify infrastructure to support the first 1 million developers in their early days.
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March 2, 2023
We are very excited to announce that Pratim Bhosale has joined SurrealDB! With a history in backend engineering at UBS, Pratim is an accomplished Developer Advocate and content strategist, possessing a keen interest in podcasting and startups.
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March 1, 2023
We are very excited to announce that Yusuke Kuoka has joined SurrealDB! As the lead maintainer of the famous ‘helmfile’, and the creator of the now GitHub Actions adopted ‘actions-runner-controller’, Yusuke is a seasoned open-source engineer.
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February 28, 2023
We are thrilled to announce that Alexander Fridriksson has joined SurrealDB! Alexander has a wealth of experience in the data space ranging from consulting, training and coaching in both data visualisation and data engineering.
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February 20, 2023
We are thrilled to announce that Emmanuel Keller has joined SurrealDB! With his extensive experience as the former head of search at Redis Labs and Front, Emmanuel will be focusing on the development of our distributed, full-text search and indexing engine written in Rust.
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February 8, 2023
If you are reading this, you may be wondering how to get started with this fantastic product you just discovered, SurrealDB. It's a database that does many routine things, so you can focus on what matters to you - processing your data.
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February 6, 2023
We’re throwing our first New York SurrealDB Social on Tuesday 14 March, 6-10PM EST, at Swingers (35 W 29th St, New York, NY 10001)!
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February 6, 2023
The room was buzzing at our first SurrealDB Social held at Swingers Crazy Golf in central London, as we had the opportunity to connect with members of our SurrealDB community face-to-face! We had Surrealers travel in from around the UK, as well as Europe and even the US.
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February 5, 2023
We have created an 'Awesome SurrealDB' repo. Please suggest any libraries, tools, tutorials or videos there by submitting a pull request!
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February 5, 2023
We have a number of new updates for you all! We’ve updated the SurrealDB features page and the SurrealDB roadmap page, which should give a rough idea of when we are planning on releasing the first major version of SurrealDB and planning to launch SurrealDB Cloud.
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January 27, 2023
We are very excited to announce that Hugh Kaznowski has joined SurrealDB. With a wealth of experience in software engineering, Hugh is particularly drawn to the challenges of distributed systems, with extensive experience in Java and a strong affinity for the Rust programming language.
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January 23, 2023
We are very excited to announce that Rushmore Mushambi has joined SurrealDB. He is a passionate software engineer with 20 years of programming experience, including 7 years in Rust.
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January 11, 2023
We're throwing our first SurrealDB Social in London on Wednesday 25 January, 6-9PM GMT, at Swingers West End!
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January 4, 2023
Matt and FirstMark deeply share our vision, and we are truly humbled to have them with us on this journey.
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December 22, 2022
Happy holidays to all our users, followers, and supporters around the world, and best wishes for 2023!
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December 13, 2022
Want to get your hands on our first ever limited-edition SurrealDB stickers 🌈❄️👀
We would love to learn how you are using SurrealDB!
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December 10, 2022
Thank you once again to everyone who has shown interest in SurrealDB!
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December 8, 2022
We are very excited to announce that Lizzie Holmes has joined SurrealDB as our new Experiences Manager. She brings with her a wealth of knowledge and experience with startups, growing communities and creating unique inspiring events.
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November 25, 2022
We are a startup with an ambitious mission to build the ultimate multi-model database for tomorrow’s applications. We are seeking to hire the best - people who care deeply about the work they do, and care about the people with whom they create and promote the product.
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October 1, 2022
We know you've been waiting for it! And SurrealDB's beta 8 is finally here!
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September 17, 2022
⭐ 10,000 GitHub stars in 4 weeks! We are utterly blown away! Thank you so, so much to the SurrealDB and dev communities for your amazing support! This is only the start of the SurrealDB journey! We have so much more to come! ⭐
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September 17, 2022
#2 on Hacker News... There won't be much sleep once again for Jaime and Tobie this weekend! Thank you once again for all the support over the past 3 weeks!
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September 17, 2022
Thank you very much Fireship once again for another brilliant video on SurrealDB! We really, really appreciate it!
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September 16, 2022
Thank you once again for all the love and support over the last 24 hours! SurrealDB is currently the No. 1 📈 AND No. 2 📈 trending public repository on GitHub worldwide! We think we have broken GitHub 😵!
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September 16, 2022
Thank you very much Fireship for the 📹 video on SurrealDB! We really appreciate it!
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September 12, 2022
⭐ 5000 GitHub stars in 3 weeks! Wow! We are blown away! Thank you, thank you, thank you to the SurrealDB and dev communities for your amazing support! ⭐
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September 12, 2022
Thank you to all our super Surrealers and everyone who has shown interest in our database, the fastest growing database of all time! Surreal! 🚀
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September 10, 2022
Thank you very much to Code to the Moon for the YouTube video tour of the query language and capabilities of SurrealDB!
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September 6, 2022
Thank you very much to Chris Hay, CTO at IBM iX for his excellent, thorough video on SurrealDB. We are looking forward to the sequel!
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September 2, 2022
The easiest and preferred way to get going with SurrealDB on Windows is to install and use the SurrealDB command-line tool. Run the following command in your terminal and follow the on-screen instructions...
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August 30, 2022
⭐ Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! Thank you to our SurrealDB stargazers for helping us pass 3500 GitHub stars! ⭐
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August 29, 2022
Add support for Objects and Arrays as Record IDs, add support for querying records using Record ID ranges, add SQL session functions for retrieving session variables, make --ns and --db arguments optional in command-line REPL, and much more.
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August 24, 2022
Absolutely shocked and honoured to reach the No. 1 trending public repository on GitHub worldwide. Thank you to everyone who has shown interest in SurrealDB and helped us reach 2500 GitHub stars!
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August 23, 2022
⭐ Wow!!! Thank you to our SurrealDB stargazers for helping us pass 1500 GitHub stars! From 180 to 1500 in 48 hours, we are lost for words! ⭐
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August 22, 2022
Thank you for all the comments, feedback and support on the SurrealDB post on Reddit's 4.5 million member-strong Programming subreddit. We are honoured to have made No. 1 on the 🔥 'Hot' list.
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August 22, 2022
Wow!!! We really can't believe this!!! We are absolutely buzzing to make it onto the front page of Hacker News, and to get to number 4, no less! 😍
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August 21, 2022
Thank you to our SurrealDB stargazers for helping us pass 500 GitHub stars! We really appreciate it!
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August 20, 2022
Thank you for all the comments, feedback and support on the SurrealDB post on Reddit's Rust subreddit. We are honoured to have made the 🔥 'Hot' list.
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August 13, 2022
Add command-line SurrealQL REPL for quick querying of a database, log username at server startup when root authentication is enabled, enable SurrealDB server to be configured using environment variables, implement config definition key and value caching within a transaction, and much more.
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August 5, 2022
Thank you to our SurrealDB stargazers for helping us pass 100 GitHub stars! It’s early days, but we greatly appreciate it!
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August 4, 2022
Thank you for all the comments, feedback and support on our SurrealDB 'launch' post on IndieHackers.com. We are honoured to have made the 'Popular' list!
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August 4, 2022
We’re happy to announce that initial server side documentation for Node.js, Golang and Deno, along with client side documentation for JavaScript is LIVE!
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August 3, 2022
SurrealDB is an innovative NewSQL cloud database, suitable for serverless applications, jamstack applications, single-page applications, and traditional applications. It is unmatched in its versatility and financial value, with the ability for deployment on cloud, on-premise, embedded, and edge computing environments.
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August 1, 2022
Temporarily disable HTTP response compression, improve surreal import and surreal export cli commands, and more...
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July 28, 2022
Add new strict mode to SurrealDB server, ensure default table permissions are set to NONE not FULL, and more...
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July 24, 2022
Log root authentication configuration status on server startup, ensure CORS headers are set on all HTTP responses even when request fails with an error, and more...
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July 21, 2022
SurrealDB was selected to the Mercury Raise Seed program along with 51 other startups from a record 2,000 applications!
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July 21, 2022
We’re happy to announce that our SurrealDB Documentation is LIVE! Installation, setup, datatypes, querying, connectivity, advanced functionality. It's all here.
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July 20, 2022
Improve command-line logging output, enable new --log argument for specifying server log level, hide default randomly-generated server password, and more...
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July 20, 2022
WE ARE LIVE!!! After 7 years of conceptualising, planning, designing and developing, our #opensource scalable cloud graph database SurrealDB is now in open beta to the world!
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June 1, 2022
When not chasing a basketball, shuttlecock, or table tennis ball, he can be found striving for pixel perfection. Having worked in the software and user-interface design sectors for over 15 years, Jaime’s focus is designing and developing incredibly simple, yet beautiful front-end user-interfaces.
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May 30, 2022
We now have a SurrealDB Discord server for our community to chat with us and others.
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May 27, 2022
Be sure to follow us on LinkedIn to keep up to date!
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May 25, 2022
Feel welcome to follow us for regular updates as we continue to grow.
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May 21, 2022
A man of very few words, except on the subject of databases. With 15 years experience as a full-stack software engineer, Tobie has developed and consulted on numerous cloud-based architectures and platforms - with a focus on distributed databases and highly-available architectures.
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