Surrealist Starlane Studios
winget install --id=StarlaneStudios.Surrealist -e Surrealist is a simple to use Browser and Desktop based query playground and database explorer for SurrealDB. You can connect to any SurrealDB server and execute queries in a graphical interface, including table & variable auto completion, syntax highlighting, and much more. Switch to the explorer view to browse database tables, edit record contents, and traverse graph relationships. Use the designer view to create or modify your database schema, and manage logins and scopes with the authentication view.
Surrealist is a user-friendly browser and desktop application designed for interacting with SurrealDB databases through a visual interface. It enables users to connect to any SurrealDB server, execute queries with syntax highlighting and auto-completion, and explore database structures in-depth.
Key features include a query playground that supports SurQL and GraphQL, an explorer view for browsing tables, editing records, and traversing graph relationships, a designer view for creating and modifying schemas, and an authentication view to manage logins and scopes. The integrated AI assistant, Sidekick, helps users write queries and explore data efficiently.
Ideal for developers, database administrators, and data engineers working with SurrealDB, Surrealist provides a seamless environment that simplifies complex tasks, enhancing productivity and streamlining the database management process.
Available via winget installation.
README
What is Surrealist?
Surrealist is a user interface for interacting with your SurrealDB database visually. It enables you to seamlessly connect to any SurrealDB instance, allowing you to execute queries, explore your tables, design your schemas, and much more. Surrealist is designed to suit a broad range of workflows, so whether you are just getting started, or pushing SurrealDB to its limits, Surrealist is the perfect tool to use.
Key features of Surrealist include:
- Visual querying using the Query View, with support for query syntax highlighting, saved queries, and graph visualization.
- Data exploration using the Explorer View, where you can browse your tables, inspect records, and follow relationships.
- Schema designing using the Designer View, which generates a visual diagram of your database schema.
- Surreal Cloud management panel, allowing you to effortlessly provision and connect to your Cloud instances
- Ask Sidekick - a powerful AI assistant that helps you write queries, explore your data, and design your schema.
Learn more about Surrealist by visiting the website or reading the documentation.
Contents
Features
- Query syntax highlighting
- Data exploration with filtering support
- GraphQL querying support with syntax highlighting
- Visual schema creation and visualization
- Write and manage your stored procedures and functions
- Manage database access rules, user accounts, and resource permissions
- Upload SurrealML models directly to your database
- Auto-generated API documentation for your database
- One-click local database serving
- Sandbox environment for testing and learning
- Command palette for quick navigation
- Integrated AI assistant for asking questions and writing queries
- Surreal Cloud management panel for provisioning instances
Learn SurrealDB
- SurrealDB University: https://surrealdb.com/learn/fundamentals
- Aeon's Surreal Renaissance (Interative book): https://surrealdb.com/learn/book
- Documentation: https://surrealdb.com/docs/surrealdb
Getting Started
Surrealist is easy to get started with, as we provide both a web app and a desktop app for you to use. While the web app is the quickest way to get started, the desktop app provides additional features such as local database serving and opening queries from disk.
Using the Web App
Visit https://surrealist.app/ to start using Surrealist in your browser.
Using the Desktop App
You can download the latest version of Surrealist Desktop here or find a list of releases on the GitHub page. This version is the recommended way to interact with SurrealDB, as it supports additional features over the web app.
Surreal Cloud
SurrealDB is available as a hosted platform. Forget about infrastructure operations, monitoring, backups or capacity planning. Surreal Cloud allows you to focus on building great products using the power and flexibility of SurrealDB in just a few clicks. Grow from prototype to enterprise-scale. The Surreal Cloud scalable architecture allows your database to evolve as your application grows, ensuring you are always ahead of demand.
Surrealist features an integrated Surreal Cloud management panel, allowing you to effortlessly provision and connect to your Cloud instances, manage your billing, and monitor your usage. The Surreal Cloud panel is available in both the web and desktop apps.
Contributing
We welcome any issues and PRs submitted to Surrealist. Before you open an issue or PR please read our Contributor Guide.
Disclaimer
- Surrealist aims to stay up-to-date with the latest stable release of SurrealDB. We cannot guarantee support for latest nightly builds.
- Connections to remote servers may require a HTTPS connection. You can easily configure SSL for your server using tools like Letsencrypt and nginx.
License
Source code for Surrealist is licensed under the MIT license.
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