# Databases have traditionally been expensive. What if we could change that?

DevFeed: [Databases have traditionally been expensive. What if we could change that?](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/databases-have-traditionally-been-expensive-what-if-we-could-change-that-5930.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://turso.tech/blog/databases-have-traditionally-been-expensive-what-if-we-could-change-that-ec7f32ab>)

Author: Glauber Costa

Published: 2023-12-15T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Turso Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/turso-blog.md>)

Topics: [Turso](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/turso.md>), [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [SQLite](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sqlite.md>), [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-infrastructure.md>)

Tags: [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [databases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/databases.md>), [devices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/devices.md>), [embedded](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/embedded.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [multitenancy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/multitenancy.md>), [offline](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/offline.md>), [per-user-database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/per-user-database.md>), [processes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/processes.md>), [scale](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scale.md>), [servers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/servers.md>), [sqlite](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sqlite.md>), [sync](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sync.md>), [turso](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/turso.md>)

## AI overview

The article describes using Turso to create many databases for multitenant SaaS applications, including a separate database for each tenant, user, or location. It presents deployment across infrastructure, including embedded deployments, while noting that Turso Cloud supports querying databases over the network and syncing them with devices and servers for offline use.

## Source excerpt

Build multitenant SaaSes (with a database per tenant, user, location) and deploy databases anywhere including embedded in your own infrastructure. This and more is what having a legendary amount of databases can do for you.