Scott and Wes chat with Glauber Costa from Turso about the evolution of databases and the fascinating technology behind Turso. They dive into topics like the benefits of massive multi-tenancy, vector search, and why Glauber made the switch from NoSQL to relational databases.

Show Notes
  • 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
  • 00:36 Turso’s relationship with Drizzle.
  • 02:10 What is Turso?
  • 04:23 Brought to you by Sentry.io.
  • 04:48 Using libSQL without Turso.
  • 06:21 An explanation of Vector Search.
  • 07:16 Vector databases are being ‘Sherlocked’ by larger databases.
  • 09:24 Why did you move from NoSQL to Relational?
  • 12:00 Allows for massive multi-tenancy - what does that mean?
  • 15:27 Transactional schema changes.
  • 16:30 Why would you want 10,000 databases?
  • 19:02 What makes SQLite cheaper?
  • 22:59 The strategy for building a business around an inexpensive tool.
  • 26:13 Pull requests and branching within SQLite.
  • 28:52 Database snapshots for rollbacks.
  • 31:14 Driving the cost of a database to zero allows for rethinking architecture.
  • 32:35 SQLite informing Turso’s edge functionality.
  • 36:56 Automatic replica database syncing.
  • 39:10 Is the database a bottleneck?
  • 39:25 Embedded Replicas.
  • 40:04 How do embedded replicas handle conflict resolution from offline users?
  • 41:43 If the server is offline, can the database live in the client or WASM?
  • 43:09 Conflict resolution.
  • 44:47 What makes Turso stand out?
  • 47:51 What was it like working on the Linux Kernel?
  • 51:57 Do you use Linux?
  • 52:46 Sick Picks & Shameless Plugs.
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