SurrealDB

includes SurrealDB Cloud, SurrealDB 2.0

21 statements across 2 episodes · 9 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 28, 2023 by Jaime & Tobie Morgan Hitchcock · said 89 times in 3 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Mar 28, 2023 positive
Assertion Supported
SurrealDB allows front-end applications to run without an API layer
“If people are building front-end applications, they can use SurrealDB completely without any middle layer or API layer sitting in front of it.”
Jaime & Tobie Morgan Hitchcock Mar 28, 2023 ▶ 6:32 Not Just Another Cloud Database | SurrealDB Co-Founders Jaime & Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
Mar 28, 2023 positive
Disclosure
SurrealDB will include WebAssembly plugins to enable custom logic and functions
“With WebAssembly plugins, which will be coming for our version one, that will enable all users to run their own custom logic and custom functions.”
Jaime & Tobie Morgan Hitchcock Mar 28, 2023 ▶ 11:19 Not Just Another Cloud Database | SurrealDB Co-Founders Jaime & Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
Mar 28, 2023 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Secondary streaming views allow real-time analytics without impacting database performance
“These allow streaming averages or walking averages and other calculations over your data in real time without affecting the performance of your database.”
Jaime & Tobie Morgan Hitchcock Mar 28, 2023 ▶ 9:35 Not Just Another Cloud Database | SurrealDB Co-Founders Jaime & Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
Mar 28, 2023 neutral
Assertion Supported
Graph databases Neo4j and TypeDB lack concepts of tables or collections
“The graph database that people know, so NeoFj and TypeDB, they have no concept of tables. They have no concept of collections.”
Jaime & Tobie Morgan Hitchcock Mar 28, 2023 ▶ 17:22 Not Just Another Cloud Database | SurrealDB Co-Founders Jaime & Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
Mar 28, 2023 positive
Disclosure
SurrealDB rewrote its entire codebase from Go to Rust
“We decided to rewrite the whole thing in Rust because that gave us the guarantees A better language. Performance wasn't really the key, but enabling us to do other things with the language that we just couldn't do and go.”
Jaime & Tobie Morgan Hitchcock Mar 28, 2023 ▶ 20:24 Not Just Another Cloud Database | SurrealDB Co-Founders Jaime & Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
Mar 28, 2023 positive
Insight
Graph data is the optimal way to query data going forward
“To be honest, I think graph data is really the way that we should be querying the data going forward. Ultimately, the world is not modeled according to tables or tabular data. It's modeled according to relationships and links between, between data.”
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock Mar 28, 2023 ▶ 4:21 Not Just Another Cloud Database | SurrealDB Co-Founders Jaime & Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
Mar 28, 2023 neutral
Disclosure
SurrealDB decouples compute and storage using query nodes over key-value stores
“Our query nodes effectively are dumb nodes that sit in front of a key value store. That key value store can be embedded like RocksDB. It can be sitting in the browser, or it can be a distributed key value store that scales to terabytes or petabytes of data.”
Jaime & Tobie Morgan Hitchcock Mar 28, 2023 ▶ 18:50 Not Just Another Cloud Database | SurrealDB Co-Founders Jaime & Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
Mar 28, 2023 positive
Assertion Supported
SurrealDB can run embedded directly inside web browsers using IndexedDB
“Effectively, SurrealDB runs as an embedded database or in the cloud, but it enables us also to run directly in the browser in an embedded way on top of IndexDB.”
Jaime & Tobie Morgan Hitchcock Mar 28, 2023 ▶ 7:37 Not Just Another Cloud Database | SurrealDB Co-Founders Jaime & Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
Oct 3, 2024 neutral
Disclosure
Hitchcock: SurrealDB avoids PostgreSQL limitations by not building on top of it
“We're not building on top of Postgres and therefore limited by what Postgres has to offer.”
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock Oct 3, 2024 ▶ 43:35 Building The Database That Can Do It All | Tobie Morgan Hitchcock, CEO of SurrealDB
Oct 3, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hitchcock: Dedicated in-memory graph databases will always outpace multi-model engines
“If you're dealing with graph data that all sits inside memory and it's being stored in a graph data structure, then that's always going to be quicker on a graph database that is sitting on a single node.”
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock Oct 3, 2024 ▶ 27:47 Building The Database That Can Do It All | Tobie Morgan Hitchcock, CEO of SurrealDB
Oct 3, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hitchcock: Enterprises adopt SurrealDB for isolated problems, not to replace systems
“They're not coming to us and saying, I'm going to replace four different databases that I've spent the last 10 years implementing. It's usually being able to solve one problem to begin with, and that problem is usually that they're having to work with many dif…”
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock Oct 3, 2024 ▶ 33:25 Building The Database That Can Do It All | Tobie Morgan Hitchcock, CEO of SurrealDB
Oct 3, 2024
Assertion Supported
Hitchcock: SurrealDB is built entirely in Rust
“CeruleDB, the entirety of CeruleDB is built in Rust.”
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock Oct 3, 2024 ▶ 6:08 Building The Database That Can Do It All | Tobie Morgan Hitchcock, CEO of SurrealDB
Oct 3, 2024
Disclosure
Hitchcock: SurrealDB completely rewrote its original codebase from Golang to Rust
“And so, we made the decision to completely rewrite the entire codebase from Golang into Rust.”
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock Oct 3, 2024 ▶ 11:57 Building The Database That Can Do It All | Tobie Morgan Hitchcock, CEO of SurrealDB
Oct 3, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Hitchcock: SurrealDB runs embedded, single-node, or as a distributed cluster
“So SurrealDB can run as an embedded database, like SQLite. It can run as a single node, like Postgres. Or it can run as a distributed cluster, and you can scale the storage layer, and you can scale the compute layer.”
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock Oct 3, 2024 ▶ 17:50 Building The Database That Can Do It All | Tobie Morgan Hitchcock, CEO of SurrealDB
Oct 3, 2024 negative
Opinion
Hitchcock: Firebase is a data platform, not a true database
“It's not really a database, it's what I would call a data platform or a data layer.”
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock Oct 3, 2024 ▶ 5:21 Building The Database That Can Do It All | Tobie Morgan Hitchcock, CEO of SurrealDB
Oct 3, 2024 bullish
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Hitchcock: SurrealDB will be the first database with multi-model time travel
“We will be the first database that enables you to time travel in your data in the different types of models that you can work with in SurrealDB.”
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock Oct 3, 2024 ▶ 38:51 Building The Database That Can Do It All | Tobie Morgan Hitchcock, CEO of SurrealDB
Oct 3, 2024
Insight
Hitchcock: Technical startups cannot rely on engineering quality without brand identity
“In any organization, but also importantly in a startup as well, you can't just focus on the brand, or you can't just focus on the tech, you have to focus on both. For Surreal to be successful, we have to be an incredible technological product, and we have to h…”
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock Oct 3, 2024 ▶ 51:22 Building The Database That Can Do It All | Tobie Morgan Hitchcock, CEO of SurrealDB
Oct 3, 2024
Insight
Hitchcock: Users expect new databases to immediately match twenty-year-old incumbents
“The outside world can love you and hate you at the same time. So they can love what you're building, but at the same time they expect you to be where a 20 year old database is in terms of functionality or performance, and I think sometimes people forget that t…”
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock Oct 3, 2024 ▶ 46:31 Building The Database That Can Do It All | Tobie Morgan Hitchcock, CEO of SurrealDB
Oct 3, 2024
What-if
Hitchcock: I would not have started SurrealDB knowing it takes ten years
“Probably not. Definitely not. No, definitely not.”
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock Oct 3, 2024 ▶ 9:21 Building The Database That Can Do It All | Tobie Morgan Hitchcock, CEO of SurrealDB
Oct 3, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hitchcock developed the SurrealDB codebase alone over seven years
“So it's just one person, and it was seven years in the making,”
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock Oct 3, 2024 ▶ 6:30 Building The Database That Can Do It All | Tobie Morgan Hitchcock, CEO of SurrealDB
Oct 3, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Hitchcock: SurrealDB allows users to run AI models directly inside databases
“One of the pieces of functionality we have in CeruleeB is the ability to bring a model right inside the database so that you can run that model. It's a custom trade model or an off-the-shelf model. You can run that model right alongside your data.”
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock Oct 3, 2024 ▶ 30:37 Building The Database That Can Do It All | Tobie Morgan Hitchcock, CEO of SurrealDB
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