SurrealDB Stream #17: How To Improve Your (Database) Relationships
Join CEO Tobie Morgan Hitchcock and Data Evangelist, Alexander Fridriksson as we dive into how to improve your (database) relationships! The team will also be answering your questions live throughout the stream. This stream will focus on: ā The difference between the create and relate statement ā Examples of how it works ā What we are working on to improve database relationships 00:00:00 How to Improve your Database Relationships 00:01:18 SurrealDB: The Relate Statement 00:08:37 A Semantic Triple 00:09:38 SurrealDB 2.8: The Single Table 00:14:25 Microsoft Graph Databases: Bi-directionality 00:19:54 SurrealDB: Single Query with Graph Queries 00:24:45 How many concurrent requests handled on a single 00:28:27 Entity 8, Non-Relational Queries 00:34:58 SurrealDB 2.8: Multi-Data queries 00:41:28 A graph vs a table: performance and security 00:46:34 Facebook 2.8: Guardrails on Graphs 00:50:47 In and Out in SurrealDB 00:52:17 Soft Deletion 00:53:31 Analytical Views with SurrealDB 00:54:54 Schemaful and Schema Full in SurrealDB SurrealDB: š SurrealDB Twitter: https://surrealdb.com/ š SurrealDB GitHub: https://github.com/surrealdb/surrealdb š¦ SurrealDB Twitter: https://twitter.com/surrealdb šØāš» SurrealDB LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/surrealdb/ š SurrealDB Discord: https://discord.com/invite/surrealdb šø SurrealDB Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/surrealdb š Shop the merch: https://surrealdb.store/ What is SurrealDB? SurrealDB is an end-to-end cloud-native database designed for modern applications, including web, mobile, serverless, Jamstack, backend, and traditional applications. With SurrealDB, you can simplify your database and API infrastructure, reduce development time, and build secure, performant apps quickly and cost-effectively. Key features of SurrealDB: ā Reduces development time: SurrealDB simplifies your database and API stack by removing the need for most server-side components, allowing you to build secure, performant apps faster and cheaper. ā Real-time collaborative API backend service: SurrealDB functions as both a database and an API backend service, enabling real-time collaboration. ā Support for multiple querying languages: SurrealDB supports SQL querying from client devices, GraphQL, ACID transactions, WebSocket connections, structured and unstructured data, graph querying, full-text indexing, and geospatial querying. ā Granular access control: SurrealDB provides row-level permissions-based access control, giving you the ability to manage data access with precision.
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Everything an application and its agents know. Five surfaces, one engine.
Database
Document, graph, vector, time-series and relational in one engine.

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What an agent learns, with its source and its time, in the same engine.

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Managed clusters in the regions you choose, scaled on demand.

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Studio
Query, explore and design the schema from the browser.

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MCP
Every model that speaks MCP reaches the database and the memory directly.

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