An adventure in writing compatible systems
Turso is a rewrite of SQLite from scratch in Rust. We aim to keep full compatibility with SQLite, while adding new and exciting features like CDC, concurrent writes, encryption, among many others. It is currently in alpha, but progressing fast and getting close to a point where it can be used for production workloads. Rewriting existing software systems is a special kind of hard. Aside from the difficulty in writing the software itself, you have to deal with behaviors of the existing system tha