[tobiemh]

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.

[purplerabbit]

Realtime is undoubtedly the dream... What restrictions or limitations are present for live queries?

[dodyg]

How do you plan to be sustainable? RethinkDB was promising but it didn't last.

[tobiemh]

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!