This course teaches learners about the evolution of compute architecture, the challenges of existing database technologies on cloud and edge environments, and how surrealdb addresses these issues. Students will learn to perform basic queries, insert data, and join data using surrealdb, which supports key-value pair, relational, JSON, and graph databases. The teaching method includes tutorials on installing surrealdb, using the CLI, and executing SQL commands. This course is intended for individuals interested in cloud-native database technologies and those looking to explore a lightweight and fast database solution.
Getting Started with SurrealDB - Future of Cloud Databases
Overview
Syllabus
- the evolution of compute architecture
- evolution of databases
- sqlite and the problem it solves
- the problems with sqlite on cloud native architectures
- surrealdb and the need for a new cloud native database technology
- installing surrealdb
- surrealdb CLI
- starting the surrealdb as an in-memory database
- checking you can connect
- namespaces and databases
- surrealdb sql and selecting data
- tables, records and inserting data
- updating data with sql
- deleting data via the CLI with SQL
- selecting specific columns
- where clauses
- super fast querying via records
- native json support
- array support
- joining tables and relations
- conclusion
Taught by
Chris Hay
