# We are a year into rewriting SQLite. How is that going?

DevFeed: [We are a year into rewriting SQLite. How is that going?](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/we-are-a-year-into-rewriting-sqlite-how-is-that-going-6097.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://turso.tech/blog/we-are-a-year-into-rewriting-sqlite>)

Author: Glauber Costa

Published: 2026-03-05T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>), [AI search](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-search.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [databases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/databases.md>), [rust](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rust.md>), [scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scalability.md>), [search](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/search.md>), [sqlite](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sqlite.md>), [turso](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/turso.md>), [vector](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vector.md>)

## AI overview

One year into its SQLite rewrite in Rust, Turso reports concurrent writes, CDC, vector search, improved full-text search, and type-system improvements. The article frames database scalability around provisioning and managing very large numbers of databases, with plans for SQLite compatibility, Turso Cloud integration, and bring-your-own-cloud deployments.

## Source excerpt

One year into rewriting SQLite in Rust: we shipped concurrent writes, CDC, vector search, native FTS, and a path to billions of databases on Turso Cloud.