SurealDb performance/benchmark transparency

[Snazzie]

Many have been asking for benchmarks since surrealDbs announcement, but have always been met by unwillingness to provide benchmark data. Quick search on reddit shows a few users complain about abysmal performance, worse than Sqlite. Seeing SurrealDb claiming its trusted by teams at big name companies raises my eyebrows.

[nickchomey]

It's a newish tool with a very broad and ambitious goal, so maybe cut them some slack? They only have so many hands.

In a recent live Q&A on discord, Tobie confirmed to me that v1 isn't really meant to be "production-ready", but just stable. V2, which will hopefully be released in the next few months, will come with performance improvements, benchmarks and benchmarking tools.

Have some patience!

[solmanter]

Hi surreal team. I am really happy to new announcement and features. does new features includes benchmarking tools?

[AlexFrid]

We're currently working on it and will be releasing our benchmarking results and code to replicate soon. We've been waiting on a range of stability and performance improvements we've done now with 2.0, so we will be ready with the benchmarks soon.

[hazyone]

I've heard the same statements one year ago :)

[AlexFrid]

I'm well aware @hazyone, it's been a journey to get here to the stability and performance improvements we've done now with 2.0 😅

[carueda]

I've been excited since the announcement of v2, but just now finding some time to start running some exercises I've put in place in the past ... however, when just about to get ready for that, gave a look at https://surrealdb.com/docs/surrealdb/faqs, and what a disappointment that performance is not even mentioned there anymore :/