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title: "SurrealDB Stream #19: Embedded Scripting Functions | Livestream | SurrealDB"
description: "Join Data Evangelist Alexander Fridriksson and Software Engineer Mees Delzenne, as they explore SurrealDB’s Embedded JavaScript scripting functions and answer your questions live throughout the stream.\n\nThis stream will focus on:\n⭐ What Embedded scripting functions are\n⭐ Why it makes sense to have them in the DB\n⭐ Examples of how they work\n\nSurrealDB:\n🌍 SurrealDB Twitter: https://surrealdb.com/\n👉 SurrealDB GitHub: https://github.com/surrealdb/surrealdb\n🐦 SurrealDB Twitter: https://twitter.com/surrealdb\n👨‍💻 SurrealDB LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/surrealdb/\n👉 SurrealDB Discord: https://discord.com/invite/surrealdb\n📸 SurrealDB Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/surrealdb\n👚 Shop the merch: https://surrealdb.store/\n\nWhat is SurrealDB?\nSurrealDB 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.\n\nKey features of SurrealDB:\n⭐ 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.\n⭐ Real-time collaborative API backend service: SurrealDB functions as both a database and an API backend service, enabling real-time collaboration.\n⭐ 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.\n⭐ Granular access control: SurrealDB provides row-level permissions-based access control, giving you the ability to manage data access with precision."
url: https://surrealdb.com/events/orYh-uat-lQ
---

Friday, March 1 at 4:50 AM GMT

Livestream

# SurrealDB Stream #19: Embedded Scripting Functions

```
Join Data Evangelist Alexander Fridriksson and Software Engineer Mees Delzenne, as they explore SurrealDB’s Embedded JavaScript scripting functions and answer your questions live throughout the stream.

This stream will focus on:
⭐ What Embedded scripting functions are
⭐ Why it makes sense to have them in the DB
⭐ Examples of how they work

SurrealDB:
🌍 SurrealDB Twitter: https://surrealdb.com/
👉 SurrealDB GitHub: https://github.com/surrealdb/surrealdb
🐦 SurrealDB Twitter: https://twitter.com/surrealdb
👨‍💻 SurrealDB LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/surrealdb/
👉 SurrealDB Discord: https://discord.com/invite/surrealdb
📸 SurrealDB Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/surrealdb
👚 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:
⭐ 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.
```

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