After rewriting SQLite in Rust, Turso turns its sights on Postgres
Having built a SQLite-compatible database from scratch in Rust, cloud database provider Turso is attempting something more ambitious: a Postgres-compatible implementation on the same foundation.
"I don't think there is anything fundamentally wrong with Postgres. If there was something wrong with Postgres, we wouldn't rewrite it," Turso CEO Glauber Costa told The Register. But, like SQLite, Postgres could be freshened up for the cloud-native era.
Turso has grander ambitions than putting another notch on the Rustbelt. Its SQLite reimplementation, originally codenamed Limbo and later renamed Turso, uses a virtual machine architecture that the company believes can support multiple database frontends.
This month, Turso-the-company launched the Postgres effort and suggested that the same architecture could eventually support frontends for systems such as MySQL and Redis. "Turso is becoming the LLVM of databases. One modern, reliable core; many database frontends compiled down onto it," Costa wrote, announcing the release.
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