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title: "Part 5: Making it performant | SurrealDB University"
description: "Part 5: Making it performant. A chapter of SurrealDB Fundamentals, a hands-on course with runnable examples."
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[SurrealDB Fundamentals](https://surrealdb.com/learn/fundamentals) [Introduction](https://surrealdb.com/learn/fundamentals) [Welcome to SurrealDB University](https://surrealdb.com/learn/fundamentals/intro/welcome) [Intro to SurrealDB](https://surrealdb.com/learn/fundamentals/intro/surrealdb) [Why SurrealQL is SQL-like](https://surrealdb.com/learn/fundamentals/intro/surrealql) [Part 1: Schemaless CRUD](https://surrealdb.com/learn/fundamentals/schemaless) [Introduction](https://surrealdb.com/learn/fundamentals/schemaless) [Record IDs](https://surrealdb.com/learn/fundamentals/schemaless/record-ids) [Inserting data](https://surrealdb.com/learn/fundamentals/schemaless/inserting-data) [Reading data](https://surrealdb.com/learn/fundamentals/schemaless/reading-data) [Updating data](https://surrealdb.com/learn/fundamentals/schemaless/updating-data) [Deleting data](https://surrealdb.com/learn/fundamentals/schemaless/deleting-data) [Part 2: Adding relationships](https://surrealdb.com/learn/fundamentals/relationships) [Introduction](https://surrealdb.com/learn/fundamentals/relationships) [Graph relations](https://surrealdb.com/learn/fundamentals/relationships/graph-relations) [Record links](https://surrealdb.com/learn/fundamentals/relationships/record-links) [Relational style joins](https://surrealdb.com/learn/fundamentals/relationships/relational-style) [Part 3: Making it schemafull](https://surrealdb.com/learn/fundamentals/schemafull) [Introduction](https://surrealdb.com/learn/fundamentals/schemafull) [Define tables, views and changefeeds](https://surrealdb.com/learn/fundamentals/schemafull/define-table) [Define fields, constraints and assertions](https://surrealdb.com/learn/fundamentals/schemafull/define-fields) [Schemafull CRUD](https://surrealdb.com/learn/fundamentals/schemafull/schemafull-crud) [Part 4: Making it secure](https://surrealdb.com/learn/fundamentals/security) [Introduction](https://surrealdb.com/learn/fundamentals/security) [Authentication](https://surrealdb.com/learn/fundamentals/security/authentication) [Query capabilities](https://surrealdb.com/learn/fundamentals/security/query-capabilities) [Part 5: Making it performant](https://surrealdb.com/learn/fundamentals/performance) [Introduction](https://surrealdb.com/learn/fundamentals/performance) [Indexing & data model considerations](https://surrealdb.com/learn/fundamentals/performance/index-data-model) [Deployment & storage layer considerations](https://surrealdb.com/learn/fundamentals/performance/deployment-storage) [Completion](https://surrealdb.com/learn/fundamentals/completion) Certification Pending completion

# Part 5: Making it performant

I hope you've had fun playing it safe in the last part, because in this part, we'll briefly introduce the various performance considerations you need to be aware of to make the database blazingly fast.

This part of the course covers the fundamentals that are useful to know right now. For some other tips to read about once you're done, see our [performance best practices guide](https://surrealdb.com/docs/learn/querying/performance/performance-best-practices) in the documentation.

If you're ready to go, I'll see you in the next one.

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