Introducing the first alpha of Turso: The next evolution of SQLite

[samdoesnothing]

Seems odd to name the database the same as the company and saas offering.

[SchwKatze]

It's been a pleasure to work on this project, there are so much things to do but we're definitely in the right track, awesome team! Congrats to everyone

[zX41ZdbW]

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

[Melphin]

Interesting. Even with DST, I still question their reliability. I don't think even modern techniques can beat SQLite's decades of testing.

[wang_li]

Looks like some real issues with trademark violation in the way they are pitching their product.

[CharlesW]

Yep, the implied officiality of "the next evolution of SQLite" is creepy and deceptive positioning.

Their "about" page explains a lot — they're disastrously top-heavy with investors and have been in a holding pattern for 3 years (according to CrunchBase), and so don't have a choice but to kill the king or die trying.

[adamrezich]

Embrace, extend, extinguish.

[tasshin]

I wonder if they are using Jepsen, or would consider it!

[SchwKatze]

Currently not, my guess is that since we're in a very early stage jepsen would find so much errors that simply wouldn't worth.

Definitely we'll test it with jepsen someday but the database must be way more mature.