alt Hacker NewsWe're Building Postgres in Rust. Using the LLVM of Databases
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I'm already quite excited about Turso being SQLite-compatible, but adding many features on top.
And when a feature is not directly compatible with SQLite (ie: you can't directly read the file with `sqlite3`, it's straightforward to convert). This is great because you know you'll always be able to continue working with that database. Even if Turso stopped working, it's still a valid SQLite database.
A combination I would be excited about is:
- Full support for Postgres protocol/wire format (ie: Postgres, but in-process, backed by a single file). - Optional: Client/server architecture for further scaling and remote management using existing Postgres tooling - All backed by a SQLite-compatible file
They are already adding MVCC to SQLite anyway. So their effort seems doable, and I hope they succeed.
Sounds cool but also why? Is it so it's possible to have 1 database and then switch from sqlite to postgres without data migration?
Author also discussing it on their Twitter [0]. I’m reserving judgement for now, but this has lots of potential usecases even apart from replacing postgres.
The llvm of databases is not turso, it's datafusion.
Will it have fast COUNT-s?
As someone who doesn't follow databases that closely, how is this different from Amazon Aurora (other than being open source)?