Re:SurrealDB – Document-graph database, for the realtime web
by mackeyja92 on Monday August 22, 2022 @10:50AM
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Looks very interesting. Kind of reminds me of RethinkDB with its real-time features. Was any inspiration from them?
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Re:SurrealDB – Document-graph database, for the realtime web
by tobiemh on Monday August 22, 2022 @10:56AM
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Absolutely mackeyja92. We were users of RethinkDB back in the day. We wanted to bring the best features/functionality of NoSQL databases (MongoDB/RethinkDB/CouchDB/...), graph databases (Neo4j/OrientDB/...), and relational databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL/...) together into one platform, and then add some awesome functionality on top of it!
In addition we really wanted the realtime functionality to be available when connecting directly from the browser (like Firebase), and that's something that RethinkDB didn't offer.
Re:SurrealDB – Document-graph database, for the realtime web
by purplerabbit on Monday August 22, 2022 @02:41PM
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Realtime is undoubtedly the dream... What restrictions or limitations are present for live queries?
Re:SurrealDB – Document-graph database, for the realtime web
by dodyg on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @04:19AM
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How do you plan to be sustainable? RethinkDB was promising but it didn't last.
Re:SurrealDB – Document-graph database, for the realtime web
by tobiemh on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @05:14AM
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Hi dodyg, it is our intention to provide a fully-managed cloud hosted version of SurrealDB. We'll also offer support to those companies who want/need it. But our primary business model will be the DBaaS platform. We definitely don't plan on going down the same route as RethinkDB did!