Friday, October 24, 2025

SurrealDB for "datagentic" Event-Driven AI Apps

The AWS Developers Podcast 
SurrealDB stands out by cleanly separating storage from compute, supporting multiple data models within a single engine, and delivering a developer-friendly experience through its web-based tools and Rust-powered core. Toby shares insights into the journey from Golang to Rust, explains how developers can use SurrealDB as either an embedded library or a server, and discusses real-world use cases from edge deployments to real-time decision-making in the cloud.

Tobie Morgan Hitchcock is the CEO and co-founder of SurrealDB
"Enterprise-grade agentic memory, secured at the core"

SurrealDB is an open-source, multi-model database developed in Rust and integrates functionalities of many databases including relational, document, graph, time series, search and vector databases. It supports both schema-less and schema-full data models and has a SQL-like query language.

Multi-Model Magic: Inside SurrealDB - YouTube




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