March 15, 2024
JSON is the popular kid in school, but CBOR is the new kid who's smaller, faster, and has more tricks up its sleeve!
March 13, 2024
The best way to predict the future is to create it
March 12, 2024
This new release comes with bug fixes, performance improvements, and feature updates to our define & remove statements and KNN syntax
March 9, 2024
If the Internet has enabled us to communicate beyond boundaries in real-time, emojis helped it by making them the universal language of expression.
March 8, 2024
Read about her journey and why she is using SurrealDB for her current research.
February 21, 2024
SurrealDB's relational style joins exist in a superposition. The only way to know for sure is by looking at this blog post
February 6, 2024
This new release comes with bug fixes, performance improvements, and feature updates to string methods, support for READONLY fields and type support for subfields.
February 1, 2024
We're hiring! Join SurrealDB as we continue to shape the future of database technology! We're on the lookout for exceptional individuals - those who are passionate about their craft and equally passionate about the team they work with to develop and promote groundbreaking technology.
January 29, 2024
Can't join? No worries, we can relate.
January 23, 2024
The blog introduces VART, an Immutable Versioned Adaptive Radix Trie, designed for snapshot isolation in databases (surrealKV), exploring isolation levels, concurrency control.
January 14, 2024
This guide will cover using Auth0 as the authentication provider for single-page web applications using SurrealDB as the only backend.
January 12, 2024
We are excited to announce a change in our product release schedule, with a regular monthly release cycle, allowing developers and organisations to build on top of SurrealDB, with predictable timelines for software improvements and fixes.
January 10, 2024
SurrealDB comes with a LIVE SELECT statement that allows you to listen for creations, updates and deletions to specific records you are interested in or entire tables.
January 9, 2024
We are pleased to announce two additional Rust crates, surrealdb-nightly and surrealdb-beta. These crates are designed to complement the surrealdb crate.
January 9, 2024
We're excited to announce SurrealDB v1.1.0, with many performance improvements, bug fixes, and new features, and native machine learning computation, right within the database.
December 18, 2023
To achieve an efficient and comprehensive search experience, it is pivotal to have a deep understanding of both the technology and user needs.
December 12, 2023
The developer community has made great strides in building open-source machine-learning packages that save machine-learning models. However, there are still areas of this pipeline that are not fully complete.
December 5, 2023
We are excited to announce the new SurrealDB documentation. At SurrealDB, we are constantly looking for ways to improve the experience of developers on our platform which has brought us to rethinking our documentation platform.
November 30, 2023
Community Spotlight talk by Ryota Sawada. When trying out SurrealDB on your local machine for the first time, it is extremely simple to get started with its excellent CLI.
November 30, 2023
Join Software Engineer Micha de Vries as he explores his journey as a developer and dives into a practical application of SurrealDB, showcasing his SaaS product PlayrBase, built almost entirely with SurrealDB.
November 20, 2023
In this article, you will learn what streaming means with SurrealDB. We will also cover some patterns addressing how users can use streaming in practice.
November 14, 2023
Join Senior Software Engineer, Maxwell Flitton, as he shines a light on how Rust and Async Rust gave SurrealDB an edge in the database world.
November 13, 2023
When it comes to managing and retrieving vast amounts of textual data, the ability to perform efficient and accurate searches is paramount.
November 2, 2023
Join SurrealDB's co-founder and CEO, Tobie Morgan Hitchcock, and Software Engineer Micha de Vries as we dive into how to handle big data properly with SurrealDB. Ask questions, leave comments, and get involved.
October 13, 2023
Welcome back to the second instalment of our tutorial series on building a notes app with Next.js, Tailwind, and SurrealDB.
October 2, 2023
Two weeks ago at SurrealDB World 2023, our first-ever user conference, we launched SurrealDB 1.0! We were thrilled to see an amazing response to the event, with over 300 people attending in person and more than 2,000 online.
September 14, 2023
At SurrealDB World, we’re excited to launch SurrealDB 1.0, a revolution in the database technology landscape. With this stable release, we're not just introducing a database; we're redefining the essence of how databases function and integrate with your projects.
September 4, 2023
Hello Developers! After months of hard work, we're excited to roll out v1.0.0-beta.10. Here's what's new!
August 29, 2023
As SurrealDB is a multi-model database, you have a lot of options for how to model your data. In this stream, we'll take a practical look into different approaches to data modelling and discuss use cases, pros, cons and performance implications.
August 15, 2023
For this stream we’ll cover a variety of topics raised by our community including data modelling in SurrealDB, performance, transactions and more. It’s also your opportunity to ask questions live during the stream.
August 1, 2023
Join us for our 10th live stream as we talk practically about how record IDs help us with connecting data through record links and graph relations and how it can be used to simplify your CRUD operations through simple and advanced expressions.
July 24, 2023
In today's digital age, staying connected is easier than ever. Social media platforms allow us to remain connected with loved ones, meet new people, and stay updated on world news...
July 18, 2023
This stream is all about Python, where we'll cover the why and the how of using it with SurrealDB. You'll learn all about the design decisions for the Rust rewrite and see demos of how to get up and running as well as deploying a Flask app in Docker.
July 4, 2023
Join Senior Software Engineer, Emmanuel Keller and co-founder and CEO Tobie Morgan Hitchcock as we dive into the innovative roadmap of SurrealDB.
June 27, 2023
In this guide, you'll learn how to implement a simple full-stack note-taking application called Surreal Stickies.
June 26, 2023
It’s been a crazy 9 months, and we have lots of awesome photos to share with you from our journey so far!
June 20, 2023
This week we're focusing on SurrealDB's JavaScript Library. Join Micha and Tobie as they chat about recent updates and highlights, and showcase how to use live queries and the WASM library.
June 19, 2023
We've published a WebSocket Protocol Guide! This allows for easy bi-directional communication with SurrealDB. If you're excited about Live Queries, check this out!
June 16, 2023
Installed SurrealDB yet? Here's a guide to get started.
June 15, 2023
Our guide for deploying to Kubernetes is live! Learn more here...
June 8, 2023
We're kicking off Developer Office Hours! 🎉
Starting June 9th, we'll be hosting this on Discord every Friday.
June 2, 2023
Over the past six months, we have been forging ahead with SurrealDB, and now we are delighted to announce SurrealDB World conference, which will take place on September 13 2023 in London, UK.
May 31, 2023
Thank you GitHub for the feature on the Maintainer Month Library! 🎉
As part of our efforts to celebrate #MaintainerMonth 2023, we had a chat with one of our maintainers here at SurrealDB, Rushmore Mushambi.
May 29, 2023
Hi! I’m Yusuke, and I’m a Senior Software Engineer at SurrealDB. It’s #MaintainerMonth, so I’d like to explain why I became a ‘maintainer’, tell you about my journey so far, and then give you a glimpse of my life as a maintainer.
May 26, 2023
Whether you've just discovered SurrealDB or are an early adopter, you're invited to our monthly tech meetup SurrealDB Social at Huckletree, Oxford Circus. This month’s focus is on Live Queries, with talks from Hugh Kaznowski and CEO Tobie Morgan Hitchcock.
May 25, 2023
Hi everyone. My name is Feranmi Okafor. I'm a Social Media Manager at SurrealDB. As part of our efforts to celebrate #MaintainerMonth 2023, we had a quick chat with one of our maintainers here at SurrealDB.
May 16, 2023
This week we're focusing on live queries, with co-founder Tobie Morgan Hitchcock and Senior Software Engineer Hugh Kaznowski.
May 11, 2023
At SurrealDB, we are all about doing things that spark joy for developers. One of those things that constantly surprises and delights is the humble record ID, which we discussed in our live stream.
May 6, 2023
We are utterly blown away! Thank you so, so much to the SurrealDB and dev communities for your amazing support since our launch in August.
May 5, 2023
In our Beta 9 release, we updated our Go driver. In this tutorial, we will learn to build a simple SurrealDB URL shortener using the Go driver. A URL shortener is a very simple yet powerful tool that can help you be more productive.
May 1, 2023
SurrealDB is a multi-paradigm database that allows you to perform document, graph, temporal, spatial, and text operations within an ACID environment. The SurrealDB service is a compute layer that processes queries and operates on a storage layer. As of writing, our storage layer is predominantly RocksDB.
April 25, 2023
This week's SurrealDB Stream focused on SurrealQL with co-founder Tobie Morgan Hitchcock, Data Evangelist Alexander Fridriksson and Software Engineer Micha de Vries: Why is SurrealQL a SQL-like language vs a custom language like MongoQL or Cypher?
April 25, 2023
In this post, I will show you how to set up a distributed SurrealDB cluster that shares a distributed TiKV cluster. This architecture allows you to scale your operations to improve writes and reads and seamlessly continue operations during failures.
April 21, 2023
It is our belief that developers should be able to build secure, modern, collaborative applications without needing to build complicated backend APIs and database layers, and without being forced into using a single data model or cloud platform.
April 12, 2023
Our team has been working very hard on the new release, which introduces a ton of new features, bug fixes and performance improvements you can see here...
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.
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.
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)!
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.
February 5, 2023
We have created an 'Awesome SurrealDB' repo. Please suggest any libraries, tools, tutorials or videos there by submitting a pull request!
January 11, 2023
We're throwing our first SurrealDB Social in London on Wednesday 25 January, 6-9PM GMT, at Swingers West End!
January 4, 2023
Matt and FirstMark deeply share our vision, and we are truly humbled to have them with us on this journey.
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!
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.
October 1, 2022
We know you've been waiting for it! And SurrealDB's beta 8 is finally here!
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! ⭐
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!
September 17, 2022
Thank you very much Fireship once again for another brilliant video on SurrealDB! We really, really appreciate it!
September 16, 2022
Thank you very much Fireship for the 📹 video on SurrealDB! We really appreciate it!
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 😵!
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! ⭐
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!
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!
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...
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.
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!
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! 😍
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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!
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.
August 1, 2022
Temporarily disable HTTP response compression, improve surreal import
and surreal export
cli commands, and more...
July 28, 2022
Add new strict mode to SurrealDB server, ensure default table permissions are set to NONE
not FULL
, and more...
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...
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.
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!
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...