Turso
Databases & DBMS
Overview
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.
Funding and backers
Backers
2
Blumberg Capital, PWV
Momentum
15/100
rising traction
Last sign of life
2 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
May 15
On the Hacker News front page We are retiring our bug bounty program · 363 points
Jun 16, 2025
On the Hacker News front page Working on databases from prison · 849 points
Mar 31, 2025
On the Hacker News front page Turso SQLite Offline Sync Public Beta · 222 points
Dec 10, 2024
On the Hacker News front page Limbo: A complete rewrite of SQLite in Rust · 373 points
Jun 6, 2023
On the Hacker News front page Why SQLite is so great for the edge · 286 points
Mar 2023
Website went live first capture in the Wayback Machine
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.29%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
89
best: 849 points
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Blumberg Capital 
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News
After rewriting SQLite in Rust, Turso turns its sights on Postgres
Cloud database upstart wants one virtual machine core to power multiple SQL frontends
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We're building Postgres in Rust. Using the LLVM of databases
Turso is becoming the LLVM of databases: one modern, reliable Rust core with many SQL frontends. After rewriting SQLite, we are now building Postgres.
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Turso v0.7.0
Turso v0.7.0 release with faster MVCC concurrent writes, a non-blocking embeddable engine, PostgreSQL-style sequences, locale-backed collations, SQLite-compatible .NET bindings, and full-text search in Python.
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How Edgar Allan Poe found bugs in Turso
How we use coding agents to autonomously find bugs in Turso, and why giving them creative personas makes them better database testers.
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How we used Quint to find over 10 bugs in SQLite while hardening Turso
Pavan Nambi used Quint to model the SQLite C API, generate traces, and run them against SQLite. The exercise hardened Turso and surfaced over 10 bugs in SQLite itself.
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Turso v0.6.0
Turso v0.6.0 release with multi-process support, VACUUM, the Turso CLI on npm, generated columns, temporary tables, and more.
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The Wonders of AI: We Are Retiring Our Bug Bounty Program
For almost a year now, Turso has had a program that pays $1,000 for any bug that can be demonstrated to lead to data corruption. Today, we are retiring this program.
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How Sample Vault syncs gigabyte-scale databases from cloud to local with Turso
How Sample Vault uses Turso for cloud-to-local bidirectional sync with per-user databases to power offline-first AI audio search for music producers.
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Turso Now Includes Unlimited Active Databases for Everybody
We removed the active database limit on every paid Turso plan. Spin up as many SQLite databases as you want, whenever you want, with no cost mental math.
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What Happens with Open Source in the Age of AI?
AI has changed the calculation on the benefits of Open Source. This article examines how Turso is doubling down on its commitment to Open Source while adapting to the new landscape.
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Philadelphia
United States
HQ
Claymont
United States
Regional office
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2093 Philadelphia Pike #6336, Claymont, 19703