Hi Diggsey, great question. We are currently focussed on functionality and stability, and then will draw our attention to performance. Coming this week we have a RocksDB storage implementation. We've only just launched our initial beta version, and we know there is a lot of improvement and work to be done (some of these performance issues we know about already and are on our Github issues list).

With regards to the consistency/isolation model, SurrealDB sits on top of a number of key-value stores. By using the distributed highly-available TiKV storage backend, https://tikv.org, (and we have a FoundationDB integration in the works), the database is designed to be highly-scalable and highly-available. The same guarantees (albeit just single-node, so no high-availability or scalability) will be available with the RocksDB implementation coming this week. By sitting on top of these key-value stores, SurrealDB ensures that all transactions are ACID compliant. We don't want to go for speed (for instance by writing to /dev/null) over anything, but want SurrealDB to be a reliable and performant backend for any application. Obviously we have a way to go to catch up with PostgreSQL (launched in 1996), but we will strive to get there!

For a start, it's blazingly fast!

So is dumping to /dev/null. A trustworthy database needs a lot more than being fast, unfortunately.

Hi phailhaus, good point. We don't want to go for speed (for instance by writing to /dev/null) at any cost, but want SurrealDB to be a reliable and performant backend for any application in the long run. Obviously in our opinion, writing to /dev/null wouldn't make SurrealDB a proper database :) . We have a way to go to catch up with databases like PostgreSQL and other databases in terms of stability and performance, but we will strive to get there!

Yep especially considering the motto is always databases are slow. Of course they shouldn’t be unusable but the database isn’t meant to be your clients data model

But is it web scale?

Lol. Unfortunately only /dev/null is truly web scale :) !

Don't make me start using sarcasm tags. Sigh.