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by mackeyja92 1390 days ago
Looks very interesting. Kind of reminds me of RethinkDB with its real-time features. Was any inspiration from them?
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tobiemh 1390 days ago
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.

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purplerabbit 1390 days ago
Realtime is undoubtedly the dream... What restrictions or limitations are present for live queries?
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dodyg 1390 days ago
How do you plan to be sustainable? RethinkDB was promising but it didn't last.
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tobiemh 1390 days ago
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!
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