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SurrealDB Stream #11: Questions from the Community

Livestream · Aired Tuesday, August 15 at 4:01 PM GMT+1

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. 

Featuring:
🗣️ Alexander Fridriksson - Data Evangelist, SurrealDB
🗣️ Micha de Vries - Software Engineer, SurrealDB
🗣️ Tobie Morgan Hitchcock - Co-Founder & CEO, SurrealDB

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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:
⭐ 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.
⭐ Real-time collaborative API backend service: SurrealDB functions as both a database and an API backend service, enabling real-time collaboration.
⭐ 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.
⭐ Granular access control: SurrealDB provides row-level permissions-based access control, giving you the ability to manage data access with precision.

THE PLATFORM

Everything an application and its agents know. Five surfaces, one engine.

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Developers building on SurrealDB Cloud

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Developers building on SurrealDB worldwide

FROM THE TEAMS

SurrealDB gives us a foundation where we can unify semantic search, knowledge graphs, and AI-driven decision making without stitching together multiple systems. Collapsing responsibility into SurrealDB has become our default engineering posture.
Justin Foley

VP of Engineering, Later

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