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Presentation
Agent Memory for engineering knowledge
Agent Memory for both engineering teams and coding agents to store documents, runbooks, postmortems, and agent session learnings in one place.
Martin Schaer
AI engineer
Interactive demo
Credit Downgrade Exposure Alerts with SurrealDB
When a counterparty is downgraded, an agent on SurrealDB traces your exposure through the graph, recalls past decisions and alerts the risk team.
Martin Schaer
AI engineer
Source code
SurrealDB for AI Engineers
An eleven-lesson course from calling an LLM API to an agent that retrieves by meaning, remembers what it learned, writes its own queries, and more.
Martin Schaer
AI engineer
Presentation
Your company brain: build it or buy it?
SurrealDB Enterprise Edition and Agent Memory compared
Martin Schaer
AI engineer
Interactive demo
Company brain demo
An interactive company brain on SurrealDB and Agent Memory: one pricing decision followed through ingest, per-person permissions and every earlier version.
Martin Schaer
AI engineer
Interactive demo
Financial Services Ontology on SurrealDB
An interactive financial services ontology: eight source systems landing in one SurrealDB graph, with the SurrealQL behind every entity and relation.
Martin Schaer
AI engineer
Interactive demo
SurrealDB Agent Memory for financial services
Interactive demo of SurrealDB Agent Memory for financial services, showcasing scopes and temporality
Martin Schaer
AI engineer
Documentation
SurrealDB agent skills
Official SurrealDB and Agent Memory skills for use in agentic coding workflows.
Martin Schaer
AI engineer
Interactive demo
What is agent memory, and where does it fit?
The six categories of agent memory, what each one stores, and how they sit alongside the files, databases and graphs an AI stack already runs on.
Martin Schaer
AI engineer
Source code
Surform
A declarative schema definition language for SurrealDB — write the schema as a file, compile it to SurrealQL DDL, and diff it against the live database.
Jose Quesada
Creator of Surform
Article
Agent memory benchmarks are baked
Agent memory benchmark scores are recipes: answering model, judge, prompts and scoring rule. Here is how ours was made, including the numbers that lower it.
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
Co-Founder & CEO
Article
Introducing SurrealDB Agent Memory
SurrealDB Agent Memory gives AI agents persistent, queryable memory with provenance, temporal context, and hybrid retrieval.
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
Co-Founder & CEO
Article
We are replacing RocksDB with SurrealKV 1.0
SurrealKV 1.0 is open source today: 7.95× faster point reads than RocksDB with synchronous durability, and the command to run the benchmark yourself.
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
Co-Founder & CEO
Article
Introducing SurrealMX: SurrealDB’s new in-memory storage engine
SurrealMX is SurrealDB’s high-performance in-memory storage engine, built for ultra-low latency, high concurrency, and millions of operations per second.
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
Co-Founder & CEO
Article
Introducing our new University course: “SurrealDB for AI Engineers”
Learn AI engineering hands-on with SurrealDB, from vector search and RAG to hybrid retrieval, agent memory, Text-to-SurrealQL, and context-layer architecture.
Martin Schaer
AI Solutions Engineer
Article
Multi-hop graph traversal inside SurrealDB
Move breadth-first search into SurrealDB: recursive traversal with a depth range, predicates pushed into every hop, and what EXPLAIN says about edge indexes.
Martin Schaer
AI Solutions Engineer
Article
Why does my vector search return nothing when I add a filter?
A filter applied after an HNSW walk can only remove rows, so a selective one comes back empty. Three measured SurrealDB fixes, plus the schema that avoids them.
Martin Schaer
AI Solutions Engineer
Article
Building a filesystem-based agent memory on SurrealDB
Give an AI agent persistent memory as a filesystem in SurrealDB: computed file paths, fused full-text and vector search, and RBAC in a single PERMISSIONS clause
Martin Schaer
AI Solutions Engineer
Source code
VentStream: Real-time CDC sync into SurrealDB
Stream PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and Neo4j into SurrealDB in real time.
Bashiru Bukari
Founder, VentStream
Article
Graph engineering is missing a graph
Graph engineering stops at the diagram. The harder half is the context graph underneath: whether relations, vectors and memory share one consistency boundary.
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
Co-Founder & CEO
Article
Testing known time in Agent Memory on a 2,200-year corpus
How to use asOf in Agent Memory to allow gating of spoilers to ensure that spoiler-filled memory, even if already ingested, does not show up if it should not.
Dave MacLeod
Article
Integrating Ultima VII with SurrealDB Agent Memory: the testing
How Ultima VII was integrated with SurrealDB Agent Memory via Exult code changes to emit events and a Rust app using egui between the game and Agent Memory.
Dave MacLeod
Article
Chat with your meeting notes: CocoIndex graph with SurrealQL
A folder of Markdown meeting notes becomes a self-maintaining knowledge graph in SurrealDB with CocoIndex and Pydantic AI, fenced in by a database role.
Martin Schaer
AI Solutions Engineer
Article
Empower your agents with the new SurrealDB MCP
The SurrealMCP server lets you add one URL to any AI tool, sign in with your Surreal ID, and deploy, query, and look after your SurrealDB Cloud account.
Matthew McFadden
Software Engineer
Article
Agent memory needs three clocks: tri-temporal belief history
Why tri-temporal belief history is needed for agent memory to properly simulate human memory and how to work with SurrealDB Agent Memory to best use it.
Dave MacLeod
Article
Integrating Ultima VII with SurrealDB Agent Memory: the game
Why Ultima VII through the Exult open-source game engine ended up being the perfect testing platform for SurrealDB Agent Memory
Dave MacLeod
Article
One database for the whole claim: agentic claims on SurrealDB
An AI agent triaging insurance claims needs semantic, graph, and document data. Do it in one SurrealDB database.
Martin Schaer
AI Solutions Engineer
Article
Even a jailbroken LLM can't exceed its database permissions
AI agents an be talked into modifying your data with a single polite request. SurrealDB's role-based access control lives in the data layer the LLM can't reach.
Martin Schaer
AI Solutions Engineer
Article
One graph for the whole maison: luxury retail on SurrealDB
How a high-end fashion house can model clients, artisans, products, and waitlists as one graph — with vector recommendations and full-text search built in.
Martin Schaer
AI Solutions Engineer
Article
Modelling a financial services enterprise ontology in SurrealDB
Model a financial services ontology in SurrealDB: map ownership, custody, and transactions as a graph and resolve beneficial-ownership chains in one query.
Martin Schaer
AI Solutions Engineer
Article
Temporal graph traversal: incident response in one query language
Model your security assets as a graph in SurrealDB and use the VERSION clause to time-travel through incidents. Schemas, seed data, and queries included.
Martin Schaer
AI Solutions Engineer
Article
One query, not two stores: how SurrealDB makes agents accurate
Vector search and graph traversal in a single SurrealDB query. How single-engine hybrid retrieval makes RAG agents more accurate.
Martin Schaer
AI Solutions Engineer
Article
Generating embeddings inside SurrealQL with a custom function
Define a custom SurrealQL function to call any embedding API, then run semantic search, graph traversal and field shaping in one query
Martin Schaer
AI Solutions Engineer
Article
Bring SurrealDB to your Replit Agent
SurrealDB's MCP server lets Replit Agent build apps directly on a database you own, reading your schema and querying live data.
Chiru Boggavarapu
Senior Developer Experience Engineer
Article
Social graphs for activity-tracking apps
Build social graphs in SurrealDB: model followers, kudos, segments, and clubs as one graph, with friend-of-friend suggestions and leaderboards in one query.
Martin Schaer
AI Solutions Engineer
Article
Build apps on your data with SurrealDB and Lovable
Connect SurrealDB to Lovable using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to read your schema, query your live data, and build a working application on top of it.
Chiru Boggavarapu
Senior Developer Experience Engineer
Article
Deterministic simulation testing and its use at SurrealDB
How deterministic simulation works from easy to complex scenarios, and its ussage at SurrealDB's transactional key-value store and embedded key-value engine.
Dave MacLeod
Article
Organisations and Teams for your SurrealDB App
Bootstrapping multi-tenant orgs, roles, permissions, and the functions that enforce them - straight from SurrealKit templates.
Chiru Boggavarapu
Senior Developer Experience Engineer
Article
Fuzz testing for SurrealDB: finding bugs before users do
A good choice to complement unit and integration tests, fuzz testing lets you use semi-random data to discover obscure bugs before users do.
Dave MacLeod
Article
SurrealDB 3.x by the numbers: benchmarks and comparisons
Fresh SurrealDB 3.x benchmarks: 141k ops/s CRUD, scans 164× faster than 2.x, and head-to-head numbers vs. Postgres, Mongo, Neo4j, and Redis.
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
Co-Founder & CEO
Article
Use SurrealDB to see how Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
Using SurrealDB and Studio's graph visualisation to not just understand but also see how Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo works.
Dave MacLeod
Article
Agentic retrieval for structured data with text-to-surql
An agentic pattern overview for structured retrieval that gives an LLM agent a database-aware tool that converts natural-language questions into valid SurrealQL
Martin Schaer
AI Solutions Engineer
Article
Schema migrations in SurrealDB: A local dev workflow
Managing schema changes in SurrealDB shouldn't slow down your development. Practical migration workflows keep your database in sync as your project evolves.
Chiru Boggavarapu
Senior Developer Experience Engineer
Article
New SurrealDB docs search with hybrid search and reranking
How SurrealDB implemented documentation search using hybrid search: full-text and vector hybrid search and reranking with HNSW and BM25 indexes.
Dave MacLeod
Article
SurrealMX: In-memory storage with time travel and persistence
SurrealMX uses in-memory storage along with time travel queries and two types of persistent storage with configurations to balance performance with durability.
Dave MacLeod
Article
Exponential cost traps in database architectures
Polyglot database sprawl grows costs faster than traffic. Storing data once in SurrealDB cuts block-storage spend by roughly two thirds.
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
Co-Founder & CEO
Article
OpenAI’s brilliant fix for a billion-dollar Postgres mistake
OpenAI engineered an impressive PostgreSQL scaling strategy that ended up as a cautionary tale. How distributed-first architectures can avoid the same pitfalls.
Matthew Penaroza
Head of Solution Architecture
Article
How to use Surrealism to build your own SurrealDB extensions
Surrealism lets you build your own custom plugins, WASM functions that you can compile to their own binaries that are called directly from the database
Dave MacLeod
Article
File support in SurrealDB 3.0: buckets and file pointers
Define a bucket, then create, read, rename and delete files through SurrealQL file pointers - held in memory or on disk, alongside your records.
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
Co-Founder & CEO
Article
Introducing JavaScript SDK 2.0
A large update to the SurrealDB JavaScript SDK: 3.0 and multi-session support, automatic token refreshing, new live query API, and a new query builder pattern.
Julian Mills
Senior Software Engineer
Article
Custom API Endpoints: streamlining your architecture
Declare HTTP endpoints, middleware and response bodies in SurrealQL with DEFINE API, and let clients call the database without a middleware tier.
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
Co-Founder & CEO
Article
SurrealDB 3.0 benchmarks: a new foundation for performance
SurrealDB 3.0 introduces a new benchmarking foundation that showcases its improved, production-ready performance and the architectural advancements driving it.
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
Co-Founder & CEO
Article
How to build a knowledge graph for AI
What is a knowledge graph and how can it be used to enhance AI agents?
Martin Schaer
AI Solutions Engineer
Article
Knowledge Graph RAG: two query patterns for smarter AI agents
A post that walks through two powerful SurrealQL query patterns that demonstrate how to retrieve context from a knowledge graph to feed AI agents.
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
Co-Founder & CEO
Article
A look at SurrealQL and how it differs from PostgreSQL
Explore the similarities and differences between PostgreSQL and SurrealQL, and see how SurrealQL can overcome limitations that relational databases have.
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
Co-Founder & CEO
Video
10 schema tips for SurrealDB
SurrealDB
Official
Video
10 Tips and Tricks for SurrealDB Studio
SurrealDB
Official
Video
Building an App with Graph Relations, Live Queries and Authentication
SurrealDB
Official
Video
CRUD using SurrealDB in RUST | SurrealDB
SurrealDB
Official
Video
Designing your schema in SurrealDB Studio
SurrealDB
Official
Video
Different ways to perform a Vector Search in SurrealDB
SurrealDB
Official
Video
Document-Style Relationships in SurrealDB
SurrealDB
Official
Video
Embed SurrealDB Studio in your projects
SurrealDB
Official
Video
Getting started with Surreal Cloud
SurrealDB
Official
Video
Getting started with SurrealDB Studio
SurrealDB
Official
Video
Getting started with SurrealDB using our JavaScript SDK
SurrealDB
Official
Video
Getting started with SurrealDB using our Rust SDK
SurrealDB
Official
Video
Graph-Style Relationships in SurrealDB
SurrealDB
Official
Video
Graph, Full-Text Search and Vector Search in SurrealDB Studio
SurrealDB
Official
Video
How a luxury fashion retailer scaled personalised recommendations using Surre
SurrealDB
Official
Video
How I built a SaaS powered by SurrealDB
SurrealDB
Official
Video
How to Build A Full Stack Rust Dashboard App with Leptos, Actix Web and SurrealDB
SurrealDB
Official
Video
How to Build A Rust Backend with Actix Web and SurrealDB (Full Tutorial)
SurrealDB
Official
Video
How to do a Full-Text Search Query in SurrealQL
SurrealDB
Official
Video
How to Simplify Your Tech Stack with SurrealDB
SurrealDB
Official
Video
Network capabilities in Surreal Cloud
SurrealDB
Official
Video
Relational-Style Relationships in SurrealDB
SurrealDB
Official
Video
Run SurrealDB in your browser using our WASM engine
SurrealDB
Official
Video
Run SurrealDB inside NodeJS using our NodeJS engine
SurrealDB
Official
Video
Schemaless vs Schemafull Databases
SurrealDB
Official
Video
SurrealDB Studio for Power Users
SurrealDB
Official
Video
Understanding User Groups in SurrealDB
SurrealDB
Official
Article
Learning through building: SurrealDB University's newest tutorial
Learn SurrealDB by building your own database that uses its multi-model capabilities to store and query over 100 of the world's most popular movies.
Dave MacLeod
Article
Setting up an invite system
Mordechai Hadad
Software Engineer
Source code
SvelteKit Surreal Database Authentication
SvelteKit example with SurrealDB-backed sign-in and sessions.
Jonathan Gamble
Software Engineer
Source code
SurrealDB AI Assistant
Web AI assistant that queries and explores a SurrealDB database.
Jimpex
Software Engineer
Source code
UnrealORM: TypeScript ORM built for SurrealDB
TypeScript ORM designed around SurrealDB models and relations.
Jimpex
Software Engineer
Source code
SurrealDB ODataV4 Connector
OData v4 tooling and connector work for SurrealDB.
Andrew G. Knackstedt
Sr Backend Engineer
Source code
Surreal Transfer
CLI utilities for exporting and importing SurrealDB data.
Lucy Egan
Software Engineer
Article
Exploring the new SurrealDB integration with Agno
Introducing the new SurrealDB integration with Agno along with examples from the Agno Cookbook.
Dave MacLeod
Article
Using SurrealDB to Expose Organised Influence Campaigns
SurrealDB's graph queries, geolocational data and recursive queries make it the perfect fit to find malevolent entities in organised influence campaigns.
Dave MacLeod
Article
Using historical books for SurrealDB structured knowledge graphs
PDF scans of old historical books can be brought to life with LLM models and then stored and queried in a structured form using SurrealQL.
Dave MacLeod
Article
Power your AI workflows with the official SurrealDB x n8n node
The SurrealDB node for n8n is a 1st-party, production-ready integration that lets you query, create, update,, and delete SurrealDB data from any n8n workflow
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
Co-Founder & CEO
Article
Multi-tool agent with SurrealMCP and Agno
Using SurrealMCP and Agno, this is how you can build a “researcher” agent that finds information on the web, structures the data, and stores it in SurrealDB.
Martin Schaer
AI Solutions Engineer
Article
Using unstructured data to create knowledge graphs in SurrealDB
There are many ways to give structure to unstructured data so that it can be used systematically in a database.
Dave MacLeod
Article
From legacy to leverage - unlocking financial data with SurrealDB
SurrealDB helps financial institutions unlock the value of legacy transactional data by transforming it into connected, intelligent, and monetisable insights.
Brian Walters
Article
Enforcing XOR (Either/Or) Fields in SurrealDB
What to do in your schema when a record should contain one of two possible fields, but not both or neither?
Abdelrahman Omar
Article
Ten tips and tricks for your SurrealDB queries
SurrealQL queries are expressive and powerful, and the more you know the more you can make your queries work for you.
Dave MacLeod
Article
Multi-model RAG with LangChain
A walkthrough of a multi-model RAG pipeline with LangChain and SurrealDB, combining vector search with lightweight graph retrieval over chat conversations.
Martin Schaer
AI Solutions Engineer
Article
Terminal hybrid vector + text search with SurrealDB and Ratatui
Building an AI-native UI for the terminal that demonstrates newly added hybrid search that combines vector with full-text queries into a single result.
Dave MacLeod
Article
Migrate your data directly to SurrealDB using Surreal Sync
The Surreal Sync command-line tool lets you migrate your data from three sources into SurrealDB with a single terminal command.
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
Co-Founder & CEO
Source code
Aspire Integration
.NET Aspire hosting integration for local SurrealDB dev stacks.
David Bottiau
Software Engineer
Source code
AspNetCore.HealthChecks.SurrealDb
ASP.NET Core health check package for monitoring SurrealDB connectivity.
David Bottiau
Software Engineer
Article
Beyond basic RAG: a multi-cycle reasoning engine on SurrealDB
Standard RAG models operate on single shots. The Reflexion RAG Engine overcomes this through a multi-cycle, self-correcting architecture powered by SurrealDB.
Lay Sheth
Article
Building an AI-native multi-model UI with SurrealDB
Schema definition in SurrealDB is a powerful thing, and the more you know the more you can make your schema work for you.
Dave MacLeod
Article
Two new ways to keep an eye on your SurrealDB database
Logging output to file and seeing the current tasks on a console are two new ways to gain greater insight into what your database is doing.
Dave MacLeod
Source code
IoT telemetry example
Reference IoT telemetry ingest and queries with SurrealDB.
Martin Schaer
Solutions Engineer
Article
Ten more tips and tricks for your database schema
Schema definition in SurrealDB is a powerful thing, and the more you know the more you can make your schema work for you.
Dave MacLeod
Article
Make a medical chatbot using GraphRAG with SurrealDB + LangChain
Build a medical chatbot with GraphRAG, SurrealDB, and LangChain using Rust.
Dave MacLeod
Article
Semantic search in Rust with SurrealDB and Mistral AI
SurrealDB's built-in vector search capabilities make it a perfect match for semantic search using Mistral AI
Dave MacLeod
Article
Minimal LangChain chatbot example with vector and graph
Build a chatbot that understands context with a minimal LangChain example that uses vector stores and graphs to generate intelligent, natural language answers.
Martin Schaer
AI Solutions Engineer
Documentation
Build a realtime presence web application using SurrealDB Live Queries
Official tutorial: build a realtime presence app with live queries.
David Bottiau
Software Engineer
Article
Announcing our official LangChain integration
We’re thrilled to announce SurrealDB's official integration with LangChain, one of the most popular frameworks for building powerful LLM-driven applications.
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
Co-Founder & CEO
Article
Make a GenAI chatbot using GraphRAG with SurrealDB + LangChain
Build a GenAI chatbot with GraphRAG, SurrealDB, and LangChain for accurate, graph-enhanced LLM responses; code examples provided.
Martin Schaer
AI Solutions Engineer
Article
Semantic search with SurrealDB and OpenAI
SurrealDB's built-in vector search capabilities make it a perfect match for semantic search using OpenAI
Dave MacLeod
Article
Building real-time AI pipelines in SurrealDB
Say goodbye to complex ETL pipelines with SurrealDB's multi-model approach.
Alexander Fridriksson
Senior Product Marketing Manager
Article
Seamless data ingestion with the Airbyte connector
Today, we’re excited to announce official support for Airbyte, the leading open-source data integration platform.
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
Co-Founder & CEO
Source code
surreal-ts
Generate TypeScript types from SurrealDB schema and queries.
horvbalint
Software Engineer
Article
What are knowledge graphs and why is everyone talking about them?
Knowledge graphs provide the structured memory AI agents need for context-aware reasoning. Learn how this decades-old concept became essential infrastructure.
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
Co-Founder & CEO
Article
How to simplify Graph RAG using Amazon Bedrock and SurrealDB
A typical RAG pipeline forces you to juggle a vector store, a document store, a graph store, plus an LLM endpoint. SurrealDB and Amazon Bedrock end that sprawl.
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
Co-Founder & CEO
Article
RAG can be Rigged: building a context-aware agent that just works
Building a smart knowledge agent with SurrealDB and Rig.rs: a context-aware support agent that just works.
Cyril Scetbon
Article
Ten tips and tricks for your database schema
Schema definition in SurrealDB is a powerful thing, and after reading this post you'll know ten new ways to define your own.
Dave MacLeod
Article
Seamless data ingestion with the Fivetran connector
Today, we’re excited to announce official support for Fivetran, the industry leader in automated, fully-managed data pipelines.
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
Co-Founder & CEO
Source code
allographer
Nim ORM and query builder that supports SurrealDB.
Itsumura H.
Software Engineer
Video
Beyond Surreal? A closer look at NewSQL Relational Data - Beyond Fireship.
Fireship
Content Creator - Software Engineer
Source code
CLI phone book in Python using SurrealDB as database.
Tutorial building a CLI phonebook in Python with SurrealDB.
Gabor Szabo
Software Engineer
Source code
Getting started with SurrealDB using Python and Docker.
Walkthrough for running SurrealDB with Python and Docker.
Gabor Szabo
Software Engineer
Video
Getting started with SurrealDB! Future of cloud databases (maybe)?
Chris Hay
Content Creator
Source code
GKE using Terraform
Terraform module for running SurrealDB on Google Kubernetes Engine.
Dylan Vanmali
Software Engineer
Video
Hosting Surreal DB in Rust in Less Than 3 Minutes.
Gui Bibeau
Software Engineer
Article
How to Use SurrealDB with the Fresh Framework and Deno.
Rajdeep Singh
Software Engineer
Article
Improve database management with SurrealDB
Alexander Nnakwue
Software Engineer
Video
Livestream series documenting learning SurrealDB.
Xkonti
Content Creator
Video
Rust Powered Database SurrealDB (It's Pretty Ambitious) - Code to the Moon.
Code to the Moon
Content Creator
Article
Simple API with Gin/Gonic and SurrealDB (GO).
Atharva Deshpande
Software Engineer
Source code
Surreal-4o Fine-tuned Model Datasets for SurrealQL Queries - Project to create structured datasets for OpenAI.
Structured datasets for fine-tuning models on SurrealQL-style queries.
Sebastian Fritsch
Fullstack Developer
Source code
surreal-codegen
Code generation tooling for SurrealDB-backed TypeScript projects.
Albert Marashi
Software Engineer
Video
SurrealDB - Rust Embedded Database - Quick Tutorial.
Jeremy Chone
Software Engineer
Source code
SurrealDB + Go Driver Starter.
Starter project wiring the official SurrealDB Go SDK into an application.
Salman Shah
Software Engineer
Source code
SurrealDB + Vue Blog Starter.
Vue.js blog starter template backed by SurrealDB.
Fadel SrWither
Software Engineer
Source code
SurrealDB AI Docs Retrieval - Project to showcase: How to build a GPT-Based question-answering system on top of SurrealDB Docs.
RAG-style demo that answers questions using SurrealDB documentation.
Kyryl Truskovskyi
Machine Learning Engineer
Source code
SurrealDB as a Vector Store for LangChain - A Jupyter notebook demonstrating how to use SurrealDB as a Vector Store.
Jupyter notebook showing SurrealDB as a LangChain vector store.
Karim Lalani
Software Engineer
Source code
SurrealDB GitHub Action
GitHub Action to run SurrealDB in CI pipelines.
SurrealDB
Official
Source code
SurrealDB Grafana datasource
Official Grafana data source for SurrealDB queries.
Grafana Labs
Observability
Video
SurrealDB in 100 seconds.
Fireship
Content Creator
Source code
SurrealDB MCP Server
Model Context Protocol server that connects AI tools to SurrealDB.
David Whatley
Software Engineer
Source code
SurrealDB Presence Demo - Demo project on how to create a realtime presence web application using SurrealDB Live Queries.
Sample realtime presence app built with SurrealDB live queries.
David Bottiau
Software Engineer
Documentation
SurrealDB Vector Store for LangChain
LangChain documentation for using SurrealDB as a vector store.
LangChain
Open Source Project
Source code
surrealdb_extra
Rust helper crate extending the official SurrealDB driver.
Jakin010
Software Engineer
Source code
surrealdb-client-generator
Generate typed API clients from your SurrealDB schema and queries.
Sebastian Wessel
Software Engineer
Documentation
surrealdb-extras
Rust API reference for the surrealdb-extras helper crate.
Frederik Uni
Software Engineer
Source code
surrealdb-flutter
Dart and Flutter client for connecting to SurrealDB.
Duhan Balci
Software Engineer
Source code
surrealdb-valibot
Validate SurrealDB records using Valibot schemas.
Levy van der Valk
Web Developer
Source code
surrealdb-zod
Define and validate SurrealDB-shaped data with Zod.
Levy van der Valk
Web Developer
Video
SurrealDB. The Kitchen Sink Document Store that might dethrone Firebase.
Ray Villalobos
Content Creator
Source code
surrealdb.c
Official C bindings and examples for embedding SurrealDB.
SurrealDB
Official
Source code
surrealdb/surrealdb
Official SurrealDB container image on Docker Hub.
SurrealDB
Official
Source code
Surrealist Python tool
Python driver and ergonomic query helpers for SurrealDB.
Kotolex
Software Engineer
Article
Unlocking SurrealDB: Building a Real-World Multi-Tenant RBAC System Made Easy (4 Part Series).
Sebastian Wessel
Software Engineer
Source code
Use SurrealDB with LangChain
Reference integration for using SurrealDB with LangChain.
SurrealDB
Official
Video
Using SurrealDB to prove football statistics.
Joseph McCarthy
Content Creator
Article
Enhance your musical skills with Surrealist's Graph View
Did you know that Surrealist's Graph Visualisation tool can even make you into a better musician? Let's find out how.
Dave MacLeod
Article
Three ways to model data relationships in SurrealDB
A SurrealDB Stream focused on relationship modelling, from traditional record-to-record links to bidirectional references and Graph Edge metadata.
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
Co-Founder & CEO
Article
What's a database anyway?? A blog post for kids
An easy explanation for children of what a database is, and why databases are useful.
Dave MacLeod
Article
Cooking up faster RAG using in-database embeddings in SurrealDB
Speed up RAG pipelines by running embedding models inside SurrealDB.Eliminate API latency with in-database vector embeddings for retrieval-augmented generation.
Alessandro Pireno
Article
Beyond black boxes: customisable and secure financial RAG systems
A blog post that tackles the specific challenges financial services data teams face when building systems in regulated, data-sensitive environments.
Alessandro Pireno
Article
Revolutionising decentralised discovery with SurrealDB
Index Network enables secure, decentralised discovery by unifying public and private data using SurrealDB and TEEs.
SurrealDB
Official
Article
Tips and tricks on using the Rust SDK
In this article we are going to explore some tips and tricks for using the Rust SDK.
Rushmore Mushambi
Article
Data analysis using graph traversal, recursion, and shortest path
Whether you're building intelligent applications, modelling relationships, or optimising performance, SurrealDB's graph capabilities open up new possibilities.
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
Co-Founder & CEO
Article
Visualising your data with Surrealist's Graph view
We as humans love visual data, and the new graph view for Surrealist provides exactly this.
Dave MacLeod
Article
Building smarter product recommendations with SurrealDB
Personalised experiences can make or break the conversion of a visitor into a customer, which is why recommendation engines are no longer a luxury.
Alexander Fridriksson
Senior Product Marketing Manager
Article
Find your celebrity soulmate with the magic of vector search
Ever wondered how to find someone that’s most like you, whether it’s a roommate or even a celebrity? Vector search is the answer.
Dr. Caroline Morton
Article
Automating knowledge graphs with SurrealDB and Gemini
How to use SurrealDB with Gemini to automate knowledge graphs to move beyond simple storage and retrieval.
Alessandro Pireno
Article
How we improved the Python SDK for our 1.0 stable version
We've released our 1.0 stable version of our Python SDK including a consistent interface for WebSockets and HTTP requests.
Maxwell Flitton
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Enhancing retrieval-augmented generation with SurrealDB
GraphRAG: Enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation with SurrealDB, Gemini and DeepSeek
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
Co-Founder & CEO
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Building a RAG app with OpenAI and SurrealDB
We'll build an assistant that can answer questions based on Wikipedia information, using the GPT Turbo model from OpenAI
Pratim Bhosale
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It’s about time: time series in SurrealDB
The types of time series data in SurrealDB and how to efficiently structure and query this data using SurrealQL.
Alexander Fridriksson
Senior Product Marketing Manager
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Moving from full-text search to vector search in SurrealDB
If you know exactly what you’re searching for Full-Text Search would be the way to go but when you want your search to understand you, Vector Search might be right for you.
Pratim Bhosale
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Orchestrating real-time data insights with the right ensemble
Building real-time analytics leveraging OLAP, multi-model databases and workload isolation.
Alessandro Pireno
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Our new demo dataset has a lot in store for you!
SurrealDB 2.0-alpha comes with a number of exciting updates but also a new and improved demo dataset.
Alexander Fridriksson
Senior Product Marketing Manager
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Introducing Surreal<Any>: Dynamic Support for any Engine in Rust
Understand what is a `Surreal<Any>` engine and how you can use it in your Rust code.
Pratim Bhosale
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Why SurrealDB is the future of Database Technology
The people who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Alexander Fridriksson
Senior Product Marketing Manager
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ELI5 - Why SurrealDB, explained through building with LEGO
Can databases inspire a sense of child-like play? They can if the database is SurrealDB.
Alexander Fridriksson
Senior Product Marketing Manager
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SurrealDB's talk on Exploring the AI revolution
Looking to keep up-to-date with what's next in Generative AI and LLMs? We've got you covered.
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
Co-Founder & CEO
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Document-Style Relationships in SurrealDB
We’re introducing short-form video tutorials at SurrealDB. We’ll be putting out a video a week, starting with a 3-part series on relationships in SurrealDB.
Alexander Fridriksson
Senior Product Marketing Manager
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How to simplify your tech stack
Oscar Merry talks about powering a social podcasting app, Fountain, using SurrealDB.
SurrealDB
Official
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Understanding the CBOR data serialisation format
JSON is the popular kid in school, but CBOR is the new kid who's smaller, faster, and has more tricks up its sleeve!
Aravind Putrevu
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Why SurrealDB is betting on Rust
The best way to predict the future is to create it. For a database company, this means choosing Rust and all the benefits it provides.
Alexander Fridriksson
Senior Product Marketing Manager
Article
Thinking Inside The Box: Relational Style Joins in SurrealDB
SurrealDB's relational style joins exist in a superposition. The only way to know for sure is by looking at this blog post.
Alexander Fridriksson
Senior Product Marketing Manager
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Beyond SQL joins: Exploring SurrealDB's multi-model relationships
Can't join? No worries, we can relate. In this post we explore SurrealDB's multi-model relationships.
Alexander Fridriksson
Senior Product Marketing Manager
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VART: A persistent data structure for snapshot isolation
An introduction to VART (Immutable Versioned Adaptive Radix Trie), made for snapshot isolation in databases (SurrealKV).
Farhan Ali Khan
Senior Software Engineer
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Integrate Auth0 as an Authentication provider
This guide will cover using Auth0 as the authentication provider for single-page web applications using SurrealDB as the only backend.
Gerard Guillemas Martos
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SurrealDB live queries in Rust
Use SurrealDB's LIVE SELECT statement that allows you to listen for creations, updates and deletions to specific records you are interested in or entire tables.
Rushmore Mushambi
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Introducing Nightly and Beta Rust Crates
We are pleased to announce two additional Rust crates, surrealdb-nightly and surrealdb-beta. These crates are designed to complement the surrealdb crate.
Rushmore Mushambi
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Full-text search in SurrealDB: Going beyond Lucene and Tantivy
SurrealDB's own ACID-compliant full-text search engine is a unified query experience without external dependencies instead of integrating Lucene or Tantivy.
Emmanuel Keller
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What is SurrealML: A getting started guide
The developer community has made great strides in open-source machine-learning packages. However, there are still areas that are not fully complete.
Maxwell Flitton
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Deploy SurrealDB to Kubernetes with GitOps - Ryota Sawada
Community Spotlight talk by Ryota Sawada. SurrealDB's excellent CLI makes it simple to get started when trying out SurrealDB on your machine for the first time.
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
Co-Founder & CEO
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How I built a SaaS powered by SurrealDB
Hear from Software Engineer Micha de Vries on his journey as a developer and a showcase of his SaaS product PlayrBase, built almost entirely with SurrealDB.
Micha de Vries
Software Engineer
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Unlock SurrealDB streaming data magic: Live queries + changefeeds
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.
Hugh Kaznowski
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How Rust gave SurrealDB an edge in the database world
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.
Maxwell Flitton
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Create a search engine with SurrealDB full-text search
When it comes to managing and retrieving vast amounts of textual data, the ability to perform efficient and accurate searches is paramount.
Pratim Bhosale
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How to handle big data properly with SurrealDB
Join SurrealDB's co-founder and CEO, Tobie Morgan Hitchcock, and Software Engineer Micha de Vries who dive into how to handle big data properly with SurrealDB.
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
Co-Founder & CEO
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Surreal Stickies 2.0: Graph, live queries, and authentication
Welcome back to the second instalment of our tutorial series on building a notes app with Next.js, Tailwind, and SurrealDB.
Pratim Bhosale
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Data Modelling and Performance
SurrealDB is a multi-model database with options for how to model data. This stream looks at approaches to data models, pros, cons and performance implications.
Alexander Fridriksson
Senior Product Marketing Manager
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Questions from the SurrealDB community
A SurrealDB stream covering topics raised by our community including data modelling, performance, and transactions, along with live questions from users.
Alexander Fridriksson
Senior Product Marketing Manager
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Record IDs, Expressions and Graphs
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.
Alexander Fridriksson
Senior Product Marketing Manager
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What are multi-model databases?
A talk about the intriguing world of databases and where different data models co-exist, much like trains within a bustling metro station.
Pratim Bhosale
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SurrealDB's stream all about Python
A stream about Python, the why and the how of using it with SurrealDB, design decisions for the Rust rewrite and demos of how to get up and running.
Maxwell Flitton
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Learn about SurrealDB's full-text search indexing
Join Senior Software Engineer, Emmanuel Keller and co-founder and CEO Tobie Morgan Hitchcock as we dive into the innovative roadmap of SurrealDB.
Emmanuel Keller
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Tutorial: Build a Notes App with Next.js, Tailwind and SurrealDB
In this guide, you'll learn how to implement a simple full-stack note-taking application called Surreal Stickies.
Pratim Bhosale
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JavaScript Library with Micha & Tobie
This week focuses on SurrealDB's JavaScript Library. Join Micha and Tobie for a chat on recent updates and how to use live queries and the WASM library.
Micha de Vries
Software Engineer
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SurrealDB's WebSocket protocol guide
We've published a WebSocket Protocol Guide allowing for easy bi-directional communication with SurrealDB. If you're excited about Live Queries, check this out!
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
Co-Founder & CEO
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Installing and getting started with SurrealDB
Installed SurrealDB yet? Here's a guide to get started that walks you through step by step to install SurrealDB using Linux, Windows, or Docker.
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
Co-Founder & CEO
Article
Deploying SurrealDB to Kubernetes
Our guide for deploying to Kubernetes is live! Learn more at the SurrealDB docs
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
Co-Founder & CEO
Article
Live Queries with Tobie & Hugh
This week we're focusing on live queries, with co-founder Tobie Morgan Hitchcock and Senior Software Engineer Hugh Kaznowski.
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
Co-Founder & CEO
Article
The life-changing magic of SurrealDB record IDs
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.
Alexander Fridriksson
Senior Product Marketing Manager
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Getting started with the SurrealDB Go Driver
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.
Pratim Bhosale
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SurrealDB Scalability: the details
SurrealDB scales with separate compute and storage layers, a cost-based query planner, and distributed deployments on SurrealDB Cloud Scale and Enterprise.
Hugh Kaznowski
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All about SurrealQL: why is it SQL-like?
A stream on SurrealQL with Tobie Morgan Hitchcock, Alexander Fridriksson and Micha de Vries: Why is SurrealQL SQL-like and not custom like MongoQL or Cypher?
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
Co-Founder & CEO
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Clustered SurrealDB for 1.0.0-beta9
A post by Hugh Kaznowski on using SurrealDB to scale your operations to improve writes and reads and seamlessly continue operations during failures.
Hugh Kaznowski
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The ultimate beginners guide to databases
SurrealDB believes that developers should be able to build applications without complicated backend APIs, or being forced into using a single data model.
Alexander Fridriksson
Senior Product Marketing Manager
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Behind the scenes of the exciting beta 9 release
Our team has been working hard on the new release, which introduces a ton of new features, bug fixes and performance improvements you can see here...
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
Co-Founder & CEO
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Understanding SurrealQL and how it is different from PostgreSQL
An exploration of the similarities and differences between PostgreSQL and SurrealQL, and how SurrealQL overcomes the limitations found in relational databases.
Pratim Bhosale
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An introduction to SurrealDB and how it works
SurrealDB is a database that does many routine things, so you can focus on what matters to you - processing your data.
Hugh Kaznowski
Article
SurrealDB client libraries are now live!
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!
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
Co-Founder & CEO
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Why use SurrealDB? The benefits explained
SurrealDB is an innovative NewSQL cloud database, suitable for single page, traditional, serverless, and jamstack applications.
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
Co-Founder & CEO