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E168: One (Multi-Model) Database to Rule Them All - SurrealDB

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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

  continue reading

177 episodes

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Manage episode 469659338 series 3438596
Content provided by Robby (MTF); Tim (Essence VC). All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Robby (MTF); Tim (Essence VC) or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://podcastplayer.com/legal.

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

  continue reading

177 episodes

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