SurrealDB's new engines hit 28.3x RocksDB point reads, Agent Memory goes live
mattturck · x · 2026-10-17
SurrealDB's weekly changelog brings two storage engines to 1.0 plus an agent-memory service:
- In-memory engine 1.0: 28.3x RocksDB's point reads, reaching 21.5M reads/sec
- Persistent engine 1.0: 7.95x RocksDB point reads with synchronous durability at 6.8M reads/sec, encryption at rest on by default
- Agent Memory: scores 77.2% on BEAM at 1M tokens (57.1% counting full marks only), with all numbers published
- Also shipped: CLI 1.0 as a unified launcher for the database, Agent Memory, Cloud and language server; Studio 1.9/1.10 with accountless access and memory context management; new LangGraph.js docs
- Next week: SurrealDB 4, SurrealFS and SurrealDB Earth
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