SurrealDB Stream #1 with co-founders Tobie & Jaime Morgan Hitchcock
Learn about SurrealDB's origin story, plus plans for the future and a live Q&A. The stream includes introductions to new SurrealDB team members Rushmore Mushambi and Hugh Kaznowski with Lizzie Holmes and a live demo from our Discord community member Micha de Vries. 00:00:04 Intro 00:03:23 How SurrealDB Started 00:07:26 Startup Investment 00:09:50 Thank You! 00:11:46 Why SurrealDB? 00:13:15 Challenges 00:14:38 SurrealDB People 00:15:12 Plans for Commercial Viability 00:19:05 Rust Community Chat 00:21:32 Live Queries 00:22:43 Experiences at SurrealDB 00:25:30 Documentation 00:26:26 Version 1.0 Benchmarks 00:27:55 Security 00:29:45 The Cloud & Future Plans 00:32:29 Micha De Vries 00:34:48 Writing an App without a Backend Layer 00:36:24 Handling Image & Large Document Uploads with SurrealDB 00:38:42 Hosting SurrealDB 00:43:12 Sharding in SurrealDB 00:44:22 Indexing 00:45:12 SurrealDB Swag Store 00:47:27 Cloud Server 00:51:31 Cloud Terms of Service 00:52:19 Convincing Colleagues to use SurrealDB 00:55:34 Javascript Runtime 00:57:12 SurrealDB Surprises SurrealDB: š SurrealDB Website: 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. š Get started with SurrealDB: https://sdb.li/getstarted 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.
THE PLATFORM
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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Agent Memory
What an agent learns, with its source and its time, in the same engine.
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Cloud
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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IN PRODUCTION
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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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