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Limbo: A complete rewrite of SQLite in Rust
we forked SQLite with the libSQL project. What would it be like if we just rewrote it?
Turso is the SQLite-based database architecture for millions of databases. Spin up a database for every user, agent, and tenant, with embedded replication, per-database encryption, and economics that scale with you.
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we forked SQLite with the libSQL project. What would it be like if we just rewrote it?
Turso is becoming the LLVM of databases: one modern, reliable Rust core with many SQL frontends. After rewriting SQLite, we are now building Postgres.