Introducing SurrealDB 3.0

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14,845 views February 17, 2026

SurrealDB 3.0 Over the past year we’ve been rebuilding key parts of the engine to make SurrealDB more stable, more predictable in production, and more intuitive to build with. Discover what’s new in 3.0, how it changes the way you model and query data, and what it unlocks for AI applications. We break down: - How we’ve improved stability and performance for real-world workloads - Smarter ways to organise and query your data - New patterns for working with data on the client side - A new storage option for ultra-low-latency use cases Learn more about SurrealDB 3.0 👉 https://sdb.li/4avecdC 00:18 - Introducing SurrealDB 3.0 03:30 - Stability and performance 09:22 - Indexing 13:10 - Client-side transactions 15:00 - In-memory storage engine 20:30 - Computed fields 23:30 - Record references 26:08 - File support 29:20 - Custom API endpoints 33:05 - Surrealism SurrealDB: ☁️ Surreal Cloud: https://surrealdb.com/cloud 🎩 Surrealist: https://surrealdb.com/surrealist 🎓 SurrealDB University: https://surrealdb.com/learn 🌍 SurrealDB Website: https://surrealdb.com/ 👉 SurrealDB GitHub: https://github.com/surrealdb/surrealdb 🐦 SurrealDB Twitter: https://twitter.com/surrealdb 👨‍💻 SurrealDB LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/surrealdb/ 👉 SurrealDB Discord: https://discord.com/invite/surrealdb 📸 SurrealDB Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/surrealdb 👚 Shop the merch: https://surrealdb.store/

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