Extensions

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Rust. Write your functions in Rust, with its types and tooling.

WebAssembly. Compile once and run inside the engine, sandboxed.

Query access. Full access to your data from within the function.

Run extensions inside SurrealDB.A programmable data and logic layer for agentic and AI-heavy workloads.

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AI-ready by design

Call LLMs, embedding models or GPU inference next to the data and write the result back in the same statement.

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Near-native performance

WebAssembly runs close to the data inside a sandbox: compute beside the records, and nothing else.

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Fine-grained governance

Least-privilege execution for multi-tenant clusters, with a permission expression per function.

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01 |WASM SANDBOXING

Isolated by design

Each call creates a fresh WASM instance with its own memory. A module reaches SurrealDB only through explicit host functions, and data crosses the boundary by serialisation.

SurrealDB Engine

Query engine

Parses and executes SurrealQL

Transaction context

Shared ACID boundary

WASM Sandboxno filesystem · no direct DB · no raw network

Module code

User-defined Rust compiled to WASM

Isolated memory

Own store and instance per call

02 |BUILD PIPELINE

How extensions work

Write in Rust, compile to WebAssembly with the SurrealDB CLI, load into your instance, call from SurrealQL.

Functions

fn return_ten() -> i32 { 10 } fn is_positive(n: i32) -> bool { n >= 0 }

Use #[surrealism] to expose functions:

#[surrealism] fn return_ten() -> i32 { 10 } #[surrealism] fn is_positive(n: i32) -> bool { n >= 0 }

surrealism.toml

[package] organisation = "surrealdb" name = "demo" version = "1.0.0"

Compile with SurrealDB CLI

surreal module

command

Rust code ready

to compile to WASM

Compiled extension

module

SurrealDB instance

Create file location with

DEFINE BUCKET

Access the compiled extension module with

DEFINE MODULE

Access functions inside SurrealDB

CREATE person SET num = mod::test::return_ten(); SELECT id, mod::test::is_positive(num) AS is_positive FROM person;

03 |ZERO-DOWNTIME UPGRADES

Hot-load, with the instance up

Deploy, upgrade or roll back a module on a running instance. In-flight requests finish on the previous version while new requests load the update from storage.

DEFINE MODULE OVERWRITE ml;

Cache invalidation

cache.remove(&lookup) - evicts the compiled Runtime

In-flight requests

Continue on Module v1 Arc<Runtime> stays valid

New requests

Cache miss → load from bucket Build new Runtime, cache it

Complete normally

Old runtime dropped when done

Module v2 live

Zero downtime transition

04 |TRANSACTION SAFETY

Same transaction, same commit

A module that calls back into SurrealQL runs in the transaction that invoked it, so its writes, the host callbacks and the original query commit or roll back as one.

CREATE person SET score = mod::ml::predict(data);

Single ACID transaction

Query engine

Parses SurrealQL, finds mod::call

WASM module executes

mod::ml::predict() runs in sandbox

Host callback

__sr_sql("SELECT * FROM training_data") Runs in same ctx and opt - same transaction

Result returned

Module returns prediction, query continues

COMMIT

Query + module writes + host callbacks - one atomic unit

THE PLATFORM

Everything an application and its agents know. Five surfaces, one engine.

Database

Document, graph, vector, time-series and relational in one engine.

Five data models as dotted tiles: documents, graph, vector, time-series and relational

Agent Memory

What an agent learns, with its source and its time, in the same engine.

A timeline of remembered facts, each with its source

Cloud

Managed clusters in the regions you choose, scaled on demand.

Clusters in three regions on a world map, each running or scaling

Studio

Query, explore and design the schema from the browser.

MCP

Every model that speaks MCP reaches the database and the memory directly.

Three models connected through MCP to the database and Agent Memory

IN PRODUCTION

Trusted at scale. Samsung, Nvidia, Verizon, Tencent and Walmart run on SurrealDB.

14,000+

Developers building on SurrealDB Cloud

4M+

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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Start building extensions. AI and application logic inside SurrealDB, as WebAssembly.

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