Skip to content

How to handle big data properly with SurrealDB

Tutorial

Nov 2, 20231 min read

Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
Micha de Vries

Tobie Morgan Hitchcock & Micha de Vries

Show all postsHow to handle big data properly with SurrealDB

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.

🔍 Focus:

  • Time series data and choosing record IDs

  • Differences between random record IDs, sequential record IDs, and complex record IDs

  • Creating pre-defined aggregate views for handling big data aggregate queries

  • Splitting of data across tables and using record links / Pushing data embedded into records

  • How searching would be affected depending on the method used

Our newsletter
Get tutorials, AI agent recipes, webinars, and early product updates in your inbox every two weeks

Related posts

Our newsletter

Get tutorials, AI agent recipes, webinars, and early product updates in your inbox every two weeks

SurrealDB

The context and memory layer for AI agents

Database. Graphs, vectors, documents and relational data in one engine, in a single ACID transaction.
Agent Memory. Connects and retrieves context wherever your data lives, every fact carrying its source.
Cloud. Fully managed, in the cloud provider and region you choose.

Explore with AI

Copyright © 2026 SurrealDB Ltd. Registered in England and Wales. Company no. 13615201

Registered address: 3rd Floor 1 Ashley Road, Altrincham, Cheshire, WA14 2DT, United Kingdom

Trading address: Huckletree Oxford Circus, 213 Oxford Street, London, W1D 2LG, United Kingdom