SurrealKV

SurrealKV is an embedded ACID-compliant key-value storage engine with built-in versioning, that allows for historical or temporal querying. It is built entirely in Rust - like the rest of SurrealDB.

Since SurrealKV supports historical/temporal querying, you can user the VERSION clause when selecting or creating data to access historical data. Learn more in the SurrealQL documentation.

Important

Although included in SurrealDB 2.0, the storage engine itself is considered beta, and may require additional development and testing before it is ready for production use.

Key Features

SurrealKV offers several key features that makes it a powerful and versatile database storage engine:

• Embedded Database: SurrealKV is available for embedded environments.

• Built-in Versioning: Track and access historical versions of your data.

• Compaction: Efficient storage management through compaction.

• Durability Guaranteed: Persistent storage with protection against system failures.

When do I use SurrealKV?

While SurrealKV is particularly well-suited for certain use cases, it can differ in terms of performance and limitations from RocksDB. The next article will list the benefits and limitations of SurrealKV.