Previous discussion, 4 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32550543
SurrealDB: Distributed document-graph database for the realtime web
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Re: SurrealDB: Distributed document-graph database for the realtime web
#12Business source license. Free for personal or commercial use. But service providers have to pay if they offer this database as a service.
The term `FOSS` should be removed from the title
Re: SurrealDB: Distributed document-graph database for the realtime web
#13Looking through the SurrealDB website and marketing copy, I can’t help but be a little bit skeptical of the feature set [1]. Many, many smart people have burned many millions of dollars and thousands of man hours building databases claiming far fewer capabilities.
Don’t get me wrong though, it would be a really awesome product with my dream feature set if they can actually pull it off. I wish them the best of luck and it will be very interesting see where SurrealDB ends up in a few years time!
Re: SurrealDB: Distributed document-graph database for the realtime web
#14This title sounds like a buzzphrase generated by GPT-3 if it were fed a corpus of nothing but HN titles. I haven't actually read the article, but the only way it could sound more like an HN post is if it mentioned Nix.
This isn't so much a value judgement as it is an observation.
Re: SurrealDB: Distributed document-graph database for the realtime web
#15Looking through the SurrealDB website and marketing copy, I can’t help but be a little bit skeptical of the feature set [1]. Many, many smart people have burned many millions of dollars and thousands of man hours building databases claiming far fewer capabilities. Don’t get me wrong though, it would be a really awesome product with my dream feature set if they can actually pull it off. I wish them the best of luck an…
You can use it now, 1.0 is in beta and does all the things they advertise, I'm starting to dig into it and it's very legit from what I've played with
Re: SurrealDB: Distributed document-graph database for the realtime web
#16Looking through the SurrealDB website and marketing copy, I can’t help but be a little bit skeptical of the feature set [1]. Many, many smart people have burned many millions of dollars and thousands of man hours building databases claiming far fewer capabilities. Don’t get me wrong though, it would be a really awesome product with my dream feature set if they can actually pull it off. I wish them the best of luck an…
You can use it now, 1.0 is in beta and does all the things they advertise, I'm starting to dig into it and it's very legit from what I've played with
I tried searching for what kind of GraphQL support they offer on their repo (which is an advertised feature) and it still seems to be a WIP, though you have to kind of dig through the readme to find that out. Same problem with the full-text indexing feature, as another user here mentioned.
Re: SurrealDB: Distributed document-graph database for the realtime web
#17This title sounds like a buzzphrase generated by GPT-3 if it were fed a corpus of nothing but HN titles. I haven't actually read the article, but the only way it could sound more like an HN post is if it mentioned Nix. This isn't so much a value judgement as it is an observation.
"A graph database for NixOS written in Rust, illustrated with Stable Diffusion"
Re: SurrealDB: Distributed document-graph database for the realtime web
#18I've been down this road multiple times with Arango DB, and Orient DB and IDK how many others. Doing too much of everything usually means not good at everything. I will stick to doing one job good, and battle tested tools.
Re: SurrealDB: Distributed document-graph database for the realtime web
#19This is really perfect ORM layer i'm looking for (mostly because of scalability and embeded JS capability). Thanks!
Wish postgresql could push embeded JS to the extreme.
Re: SurrealDB: Distributed document-graph database for the realtime web
#20Looking through the SurrealDB website and marketing copy, I can’t help but be a little bit skeptical of the feature set [1]. Many, many smart people have burned many millions of dollars and thousands of man hours building databases claiming far fewer capabilities. Don’t get me wrong though, it would be a really awesome product with my dream feature set if they can actually pull it off. I wish them the best of luck an…
> Many,many smart people…
True and if you look inside the code you can see the stated features are a result of underlying engine from those smart people (TiKV [0] in C and rust from pingcap). Surrealdb is standing on shoulders of giants at present, they are TiKV, FoundationDB and rocksdb. The feature set they mentioned mostly coming from TiKV at present.