[HN Gopher] Do It Yourself Database CDN with Embedded Replicas
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       Do It Yourself Database CDN with Embedded Replicas
        
       Author : emschwartz
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2025-02-12 12:47 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | cagenut wrote:
       | on the one hand this is a lovely step by step guide
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       | on the other hand they seem to be saying "we see no future in
       | this so we're getting out of it"
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       | is sqlite (or limbo) at the edge not working as a biz?
        
         | snide wrote:
         | Disclosure: I'm a happy Turso customer.
         | 
         | I think this is going to be one of several blog posts they are
         | writing essentially providing users with escape hatch ways to
         | deal with features they've dropped. It wasn't just their edge
         | DB play, but also the multi-tenant "schema only" db system they
         | dropped recently. Both can be done on your own, with setup, and
         | I think they're doing their best to show that to users through
         | these kind of posts.
         | 
         | What's sort of hidden from this is that I believe they charge
         | more for embedded syncs, so they have an incentive for you to
         | use them vs. their edge system (which was on them to maintain
         | globally). Embedded syncs are nice, because for every 5th
         | "response time" benchmark we see from their competitors in the
         | hosted Postgres world, Turso can basically say "0" to.
         | 
         | I'm honestly more surprised they dropped the multi-tenant
         | stuff. That seems like a real use case for in the field
         | devices. I'm guessing they likely have better ways to handle it
         | in their rewrite, and don't want to maintain the current
         | version till they release all the new stuff.
         | 
         | Overall though I've found Turso very stable.
        
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