# Early impressions of Turso, the edge database from ChiselStrike

DevFeed: [Early impressions of Turso, the edge database from ChiselStrike](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/early-impressions-of-turso-the-edge-database-from-chiselstrike-5937.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://turso.tech/blog/early-impressions-of-turso-the-edge-database-from-chiselstrike-a822f1c0>)

Author: James Sinkala

Published: 2023-02-13T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [Turso](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/turso.md>), [libSQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/libsql.md>), [SQLite](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sqlite.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>)

Tags: [chiselstrike](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/chiselstrike.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [databases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/databases.md>), [distributed](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/distributed.md>), [libsql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/libsql.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [sqlite](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sqlite.md>), [turso](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/turso.md>)

## AI overview

The article shares early impressions of Turso, an edge-hosted distributed database from ChiselStrike based on libSQL, an open-source fork of SQLite. It describes Turso Cloud access over the wire, synchronization with devices and servers, offline support, and file-based databases that avoid sleeping, cold starts, and scale-to-zero requirements. The supplied text notes that these descriptions reference an older version of Turso and that current Turso uses Turso-native SDKs.

## Source excerpt

I got into the private Beta program of the new ChiselStrike product -- Turso, an edge-hosted distributed database based on libSQL, the open-source and open-contribution fork of SQLite.