Introducing Surrealist 1.11. This release implements the highly requested feature of starting and connecting to an embedded SurrealDB instance among other improvements.

Sandbox sessions

Sessions can now be configured to connect to the sandbox, an embedded instance of SurrealDB that is automatically managed by Surrealist. This is useful for rapid testing without requiring a local or remote SurrealDB instance. Currently, only in-memory and non-persistent databases are supported, however this may be expanded upon in the future.

Keep in mind the sandbox database is currently not available outside of Surrealist due to limitations of SurrealDB.

Improved query responses

Thanks to improvements in SurrealDB queries now once again display accurately instead of always displaying wrapped in an array. This means statements such as RETURN and SELECT * FROM ONLY now display single values as expected.

Additionally, query execution times are once again displayed in the top right of the response panel.

Full changelog

• Added sandbox connections
  • Connect to an internally embedded SurrealDB instance
  • Useful for rapid testing without requiring a local or remote SurrealDB instance
  • Currently only in-memory and non-persistent
• Query results are now more accurate (#115)
  • No longer always displayed as an array
• Query time value is displayed again (#113)
• Fixed incorrect explorer pagination (#133)
• Fixed situations in which connections incorrectly appeared closed
• Slightly adjust minimum window size and splitter sizes

Compatible with SurrealDB 1.0