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Re: SurrealDB: Distributed document-graph database for the realtime web

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Post by johnwoods »

jaimemh wrote: post #27

Thanks for posting this dragonsh! I am Jaime, Founder of SurrealDB with my brother Tobie. Just the two of us at the moment but we have some some really big things planned for the database. Any feedback is really welcome! More info and can be found on a previous Hacker News post here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32550543 Fireship has made two fantastic videos about SurrealDB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7W…

Apart from your buzzword marketing, what features are actually available for use today? Most are "on the roadmap." Reminds me of Spacedrive which literally launched with a "nice UI" and no actual features that they advertise for.

Re: SurrealDB: Distributed document-graph database for the realtime web

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Post by tobiemh »

user1029384756 wrote: post #16
jackosio wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Hi user1029384756 - Tobie here, founder of SurrealDB. We do plan to support GraphQL integration soon (hopefully before our final 1.0 version). Our features page https://surrealdb.com/features is the best place to see what is built, and what we intend to build in due course! Hope this helps!

Re: SurrealDB: Distributed document-graph database for the realtime web

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Post by tobiemh »

user1029384756 wrote: post #13

Looking 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…

Hi user1029384756 - Tobie here, founder of SurrealDB. It's just a team of 2 of us at the moment, with the intention to grow the team very soon!

At the moment (as you have noted) the underlying storage engine is RocksDB (in single mode) or TiKV (in distributed mode), however, although we will always support deployment on top of these solutions, we intend to add our own embedded and distributed key-value stores in due course, which will offer different functionality in the long run!

We're looking to improve our roadmap page really soon to show exactly what we have planned / working on in the near term. In the meantime our features page https://surrealdb.com/features shows details most of the functionality that is already built, or coming in the future.

Re: SurrealDB: Distributed document-graph database for the realtime web

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Post by the_duke »

johnwoods wrote: post #51
jaimemh wrote: post #27

Thanks for posting this dragonsh! I am Jaime, Founder of SurrealDB with my brother Tobie. Just the two of us at the moment but we have some some really big things planned for the database. Any feedback is really welcome! More info and can be found on a previous Hacker News post here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32550543 Fireship has made two fantastic videos about SurrealDB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7W…

Apart from your buzzword marketing, what features are actually available for use today? Most are "on the roadmap." Reminds me of Spacedrive which literally launched with a "nice UI" and no actual features that they advertise for.

Looking at the features page, this feels like inappropriate criticisms.

There's plenty of functionality implemented to make it a workable database. It's also still in beta...

I only played around with it for half an hour, but superficially it seems to work fine already.

Re: SurrealDB: Distributed document-graph database for the realtime web

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Post by tobiemh »

johnwoods wrote: post #51
jaimemh wrote: post #27

Thanks for posting this dragonsh! I am Jaime, Founder of SurrealDB with my brother Tobie. Just the two of us at the moment but we have some some really big things planned for the database. Any feedback is really welcome! More info and can be found on a previous Hacker News post here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32550543 Fireship has made two fantastic videos about SurrealDB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7W…

Apart from your buzzword marketing, what features are actually available for use today? Most are "on the roadmap." Reminds me of Spacedrive which literally launched with a "nice UI" and no actual features that they advertise for.

Hi johnwoods - Tobie founder of SurrealDB here. We're updating our website so it's clearer, but in the meantime, the best page to see the current functionality is our features page https://surrealdb.com/features

We're also looking to improve our roadmap page soon, which will detail everything we're working on and planning to work on in the near term, and in the future!

Re: SurrealDB: Distributed document-graph database for the realtime web

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Post by tluyben2 »

chrismorgan wrote: post #50
tluyben2 wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Eventually open source is something I really do like, but it should have clear, measurable and open milestones for doing so. Like Open Accounting to show ‘if we reach 100k’ or something like that. Or if we reach 1000 contributors or if we reach 50k in donations. One thing bloody ETH would be useful for; it would be impossible to hide and you cannot change your mind on when the switch flips.

It’s all there in the license: https://github.com/surrealdb/surrealdb/blob/main/LICENSE . It reverts to Apache-2.0 after four years of the release of a particular version, or on 2026-01-01, whichever comes first. (This means that if the Change Date is not altered before then, none of SurrealDB will be BSL any more come 2026.)

Yep, I saw it; edited my other comments to say it's there. Nice one!
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