Getting Started with SurrealDB - Future of Cloud Databases
Explore the future of cloud databases in this 26-minute tutorial on SurrealDB, a new cloud-native database designed to run on cloud, browser, and edge environments. Learn about the evolution of compute architecture and databases, the limitations of existing technologies like SQLite for cloud-native architectures, and how SurrealDB addresses these challenges. Follow along as the instructor demonstrates installation, CLI usage, and basic operations such as starting an in-memory database, connecting, and working with namespaces and databases. Gain hands-on experience with SurrealDB's SQL-like syntax for inserting, updating, and deleting data, as well as performing queries with column selection and where clauses. Discover SurrealDB's versatility as a key-value store, relational database, and graph database, along with its native JSON and array support. Finally, learn how to join tables and create relations in this comprehensive introduction to SurrealDB's capabilities.