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SurrealDB Stream #13: How to handle big data properly with SurrealDB

Join SurrealDB's co-founder and CEO, Tobie Morgan Hitchcock, and Software Engineer Micha de Vries as we dive into how to handle big data properly with SurrealDB. Ask questions, leave comments, and get involved.

🔍 Focus:
⭐ Time series data and choosing record IDs
⭐ Differences between random record IDs, sequential record IDs, and complex record IDs
⭐ Creating pre-defined aggregate views for handling big data aggregate queries
⭐ Splitting of data across tables and using record links / Pushing data embedded into records
⭐ How searching would be affected depending on the method used

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00:00:00 SurrealDB Stream #13
00:01:36 Structuring IDs in 2.8
00:03:22 What Interests Me Most?
00:04:28 Grouping temperature data in SQL
00:10:36 Facebook 2.8: Drop and More
00:13:20 In the Elevator With Misha
00:15:43 In the Future: Aggregate Views
00:17:22 Facebook: Group by and more on aggregate views
00:24:31 UUIDs and IDs
00:30:14 Is SQLite good for aggregate queries?
00:32:54 Filtering and Ranges
00:39:14 Record ids vs. graph relations in C#
00:40:42 C# 2, Tag Database and Relationships
00:45:10 SurrealDB: A Rust Database in 2 Minutes

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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.

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