What is SurrealDB?

Learn about the abilities of SurrealDB without changing your database mindset.

SurrealDB offers a unique solution for developers looking to transition between different types of databases without having to adjust their entire approach. Whether you’re coming from a relational, document, or graph database, SurrealDB allows you to continue using familiar query languages and structures. By supporting SQL-like queries, nested objects, arrays, and even graph functionality, it lets you combine multiple modalities in a single query, offering flexibility and efficiency without forcing a complete mindset shift.

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What is SurrealDB and what problem does it solve?’

So I think the first reason people are coming to SurrealDB is the ability to come from a database you already use and not have to change your mindset.

So, if you come from relational you can use an SQL-like query language, we’re not anti-SQL but we support the majority of it without joins, but then vice versa you can come from a document database we have nested objects, nested arrays, arbitrary depth objects, as well. 

And then vice versa, if you come from a graph database you can make use of graph functionality so we’re not forcing you to have to think in a different way, But at the same time, you can then benefit from combining multimodals together in a single query.

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