Hacker News Reader

I am confused, this product appears to be an in-process DB, so what does "networking thing in their side" even mean?

Turso offers a cloud-hosted sqlite product. The idea is you can easily spin up per-tenant databases and have a "serverless" sqlite interface.

It feels like it has a lot of the same downsides of hosted databases so I'm not sure what the specific value is.

From their site they really emphasize local first syncing (so mobile apps and electron/tauri apps) and multi tenancy (hard database boundaries)

Huh. That sucks but also isn’t surprising. Seems like putting this in the cloud eliminates most of its benefits though. If you’re going to wait for that much latency you might as well use a “real” (traditional big complicated) rdbms.

For me, a lot of the draw is that it's cheaper than managed db services for small/toy projects of mine (that I don't want to use dynamo db for) - that and in a previous job it was useful as relatively temporary multi-tenant storage.

Honestly I still don't understand how "cloud sqlite" isn't an oxymoron.

I get it, Turso wants to actually make some money, but I just don't get it.

Sorry, the other replier is correct, it was about their cloud offering.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com