Change Feeds enable SurrealDB to play a role within the wider ecosystem of enterprise, cloud, or micro-service based platforms, giving users the ability to retrieve and sync changes from SurrealDB to external systems and platforms.
Internally, in the future, Change Feeds will enable SurrealDB to handle long-running tasks, including the building and re-building of unique, full-text-search, and vector indexes, asynchronously, without any downtime or blocking.
SurrealDB tracks all of the changes made to table data by any user, whether running as an embedded or single-node instance, or if running in a distributed cluster with multiple SurrealDB nodes.
Change Feeds enable data integrity, data backup, and consistency across systems and environments. From ingesting data into third-party systems, archiving data to object storage for backup or analysis purposes, or for real-time synchronisation with other platforms, Change Feeds are a core feature for the enterprise.