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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