E168: One (Multi-Model) Database to Rule Them All - SurrealDB
Mar 04, 2025•40 min
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Episode description
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock is the Co-Founder & CEO of SurrealDB, the next generation serverless cloud database for modern applications. Their open source database, also called surrealdb, has 30K stars on GitHub.
SurrealDB has raised $26M from investors including FirstMark and Georgian.
In this episode, we dig into:
Taking a broad vs. niche approach to building a new database
How coming from a non-traditional DB background helped Tobie take a new, first principles approach
How graph databases best reflect how humans think
The importance of design for infra products
How enterprises vs. SMBs / individual users view their value
How open source helped them develop trust with large companies
Planning out their cloud offering
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