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comment by shellpipe · 2026-09-01 · in Io_uring Without Readahead

…this one might or might not have; a hypothetical Rust SQLite would probably need a lot of unsafe ( https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso has 556 unsafe blocks in the core), and I don't have a sense of whether the particular part that…

comment by ameliaquining · 2026-08-12 · in Tracking down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug

…over the network you can look at https://turso.tech/ it’s a almost drop in replacement for sqlite ( https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso/blob/main/COMPAT.md )

comment by gabeio · 2026-07-17 · in Learning a few things about running SQLite

https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso

comment by estebank · 2026-07-11 · in Prefer strict tables in SQLite

…ecosystem to consider. [1] https://turso.tech/blog/introducing-limbo-a-complete-rewrite... [2] https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso

comment by smitty1e · 2026-07-11 · in The Lindy effect in software

…claiming to have found a way to execute arbitrary SQL. The project in question? An SQL server... https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso/pull/4322

comment by andrepd · 2026-06-27 · in Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days

Its the account that posted this PR https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso/pull/6257

comment by jmuguy · 2026-05-15 · in We are retiring our bug bounty program

…such attempt I've seen, and just like the other two it looks like this project is totally doomed: https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso/ Like, look: https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso/issues/6412 It's stunning considering this project…

comment by LLMCodeAuditor · 2026-04-16 · in SDL bans AI-written commits

I believe the full docs are here: https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso/blob/main/docs/manual...

comment by nikisweeting · 2026-04-03 · in Modern SQLite: Features You Didn't Know It Had

…do call out the compromises - they have a whole page about how they are not yet fully compatible: https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso/blob/main/COMPAT.md

comment by IshKebab · 2026-01-29 · in Deep dive into Turso, the “SQLite rewrite in Rust”

…but: 1) It's MIT licensed. Including the test suite which is something lacking in SQLite: https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso 2) They have a paid cloud option to drive income from: https://turso.tech/pricing

comment by hu3 · 2026-01-29 · in Deep dive into Turso, the “SQLite rewrite in Rust”

…and the inability to access the proprietary SQLite test suite. See the features and roadmap at https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso

comment by fulafel · 2026-01-29 · in Deep dive into Turso, the “SQLite rewrite in Rust”

It's pretty easy to get some hard data, it's an open source project. I went to https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3A... and looked at the last few PRs: https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso/pull/4824/files "some…

comment by dgroshev · 2026-01-23 · in Turso is an in-process SQL database, compatible with SQLite

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Turso is an in-process SQL database, compatible with SQLite

story by marklit · 2026-01-19 · 102 comments

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Turso: The Next Evolution of SQLite

story by nateb2022 · 2026-01-09 · 0 comments

Like this? https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso Disclaimer: Credit goes to whoever mentioned this in this discussion before me.

comment by goku12 · 2026-01-06 · in C Is Best (2025)

SQLite's test suite is proprietary. A Rust implementation exists. It's called turso https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso There's a whole company around it.

comment by EricRiese · 2026-01-06 · in C Is Best (2025)

I forgot what Limbo was, Rust rewrite of SQLite, now called Turso. https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso I could see it being useful for pure Rust projects once its completed. I mean in Java / Kotlin land, I prefer to use H2 in some cases…

comment by giancarlostoro · 2026-01-06 · in C Is Best (2025)

…another language. Almost certainly correct. It is however being rewritten in Rust by other people https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso . This is probably best thought of as a seperate, compatible project rather than a true rewrite.

comment by nicoburns · 2026-01-06 · in C Is Best (2025)

…the Rust rewrite of sqlite by Turso [1]. The big advantage is the file format compatibility. [1] https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso

comment by Sytten · 2025-12-12 · in Stoolap: High-performance embedded SQL database in pure Rust

…[0] https://rustc-dev-guide.rust-lang.org/overview.html [1] https://github.com/epilys/rsqlite3 [2] https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso/ [3] https://sqlite.org/chronology.html [4] https://www.sqlite.org/whyc.html [5]…

comment by az09mugen · 2025-11-26 · in APT Rust requirement raises questions

…Sometime after the HN backlash[2], that paragraph was removed. Eventually, Turso released https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso without a code of conduct and hasn't had one since. For me, the saddest part of the affair is that Richard…

comment by hitekker · 2025-10-15 · in Beyond the SQLite single-writer limitation with concurrent writes

fwiw there's a project doing just that: https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso they have a blog hinting at some answers as to "why": https://turso.tech/blog/introducing-limbo-a-complete-rewrite...

comment by t14n · 2025-10-15 · in Why Is SQLite Coded In C

…simultaneous writers having landed in main and it's not document as a feature in the release notes https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso/commits neither the prerelease https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso/releases/tag/v0.3.0-p... nor…

comment by fragmede · 2025-10-15 · in Beyond the SQLite single-writer limitation with concurrent writes

…is ignoring the elephant in the room: SQLite is being rewritten in Rust and it's going quite well. https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso It has async I/O support on Linux with io_uring, vector support, BEGIN CONCURRENT for improved write…

comment by slashdev · 2025-10-14 · in Why Is SQLite Coded In C

…And we are going all-in" https://turso.tech/blog/we-will-rewrite-sqlite-and-we-are-go... - Project: https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso Status: "Turso Database is currently under heavy development and is not ready for production use."

comment by pella · 2025-10-14 · in Why Is SQLite Coded In C

3 different types of sqlite, 14 different versions total: https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso/network/dependencies?...

comment by Meneth · 2025-09-17 · in Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised

…for Limbo (the SQLite Rust rewrite) to have 3135 dependencies (of those, 1313 Rust dependencies). https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso/network/dependencies

comment by ncruces · 2025-09-16 · in Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised

SQLite in Rust https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso CPython in Rust https://github.com/RustPython/RustPython Bash in Rust https://github.com/shellgei/rusty_bash

comment by odie5533 · 2025-09-05 · in Fil's Unbelievable Garbage Collector

…recent DBSP-based Incremental View Maintenance capability [0] would make of a view like this. [0] https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso/tree/main/core/increm...

comment by refset · 2025-09-03 · in Poor man's bitemporal data system in SQLite and Clojure

…three [3] implementations, right? [1] sqlite.org [2] https://github.com/tursodatabase/libsql [3] https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso

comment by gwd · 2025-08-29 · in PSA: Libxslt is unmaintained and has 5 unpatched security bugs

I tried to add it to ClickBench, but the first CREATE TABLE statement leads to panic in Rust: https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso/issues/2058

comment by zX41ZdbW · 2025-07-11 · in The first alpha of Turso: The next evolution of SQLite

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Turso Database is a project to build the next evolution of SQLite

story by mooreds · 2025-07-08 · 0 comments

How about Limbo, the SQLite rewrite in rust? https://github.com/tursodatabase/limbo

comment by avinassh · 2025-06-07 · in Summer projects (preferably open source) for college sophomores

…Rust) will include this feature, though there is no ETA yet. It's currently being discussed here: https://github.com/tursodatabase/limbo/discussions/1149 . Please share your thoughts and use cases.

comment by avinassh · 2025-03-31 · in Turso SQLite Offline Sync Public Beta

…to Turso in the future) is our Rust rewrite of SQLite. It is also open source (MIT license) - https://github.com/tursodatabase/limbo

comment by avinassh · 2025-03-31 · in Turso SQLite Offline Sync Public Beta

…Extinguish What makes you think that? Limbo is MIT licensed and I don't see any CLA on [1]. [1]: https://github.com/tursodatabase/limbo/blob/main/CONTRIBUTIN...

comment by rustc · 2025-03-31 · in Turso SQLite Offline Sync Public Beta

…be reached. AFAIK the platform continue to use libSQL, given the early stage of Limbo. [1] - https://github.com/tursodatabase/limbo/milestone/1

comment by SchwKatze · 2025-03-31 · in Turso SQLite Offline Sync Public Beta

…one of the cofounders on a recent podcast was very enthusiastic about the benefits of the approach. https://github.com/tursodatabase/limbo/tree/main/simulator https://changelog.com/podcast/626

comment by crabmusket · 2025-02-20 · in Build your own SQLite in Rust, Part 5: Evaluating queries

SQLites alternative in rust is a thing though https://github.com/tursodatabase/limbo

comment by rockwotj · 2025-02-20 · in Build your own SQLite in Rust, Part 5: Evaluating queries

…https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/tree/master/test tursodatabase/limbo//testing: https://github.com/tursodatabase/limbo/tree/main/testing

comment by westurner · 2025-02-04 · in Build your own SQLite, Part 4: reading tables metadata

If you don’t know it already, you’ll probably be interested in limbo: https://github.com/tursodatabase/limbo It’s much more ambitious/complete than the db presented in the tutorial. If memory serves me correctly, it uses the same parser…

comment by sevender · 2025-02-04 · in Build your own SQLite, Part 4: reading tables metadata

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Limbo is a wip, in-process OLTP DBMS, compatible with SQLite

story by DaGardner · 2025-01-14 · 0 comments

…“Limbo” is aiming for here You know ... you could just read a little before writing so much. On https://github.com/tursodatabase/limbo it says their stated goals are - "SQLite compatibility. SQL dialect support. File format support. SQLite…

comment by nindalf · 2024-12-19 · in In Search of a Faster SQLite

…seen many improvements since then, one being support for Deterministic Simulation Testing. repo: https://github.com/tursodatabase/limbo

comment by avinassh · 2024-12-17 · in In Search of a Faster SQLite

…fast as SQLite will be hard with full compatibility given that I expect a lot more branching etc? https://github.com/tursodatabase/limbo/blob/main/COMPAT.md

comment by durandal1 · 2024-12-10 · in Limbo: A complete rewrite of SQLite in Rust

…WASM as first class, and has Deterministic Simulation Testing support from the beginning. source: https://github.com/tursodatabase/limbo

comment by avinassh · 2024-12-10 · in Limbo: A complete rewrite of SQLite in Rust