# Why we built an Edge benchmarking tool for Turso

DevFeed: [Why we built an Edge benchmarking tool for Turso](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/why-we-built-an-edge-benchmarking-tool-for-turso-6118.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://turso.tech/blog/why-we-built-an-edge-benchmarking-tool-for-turso-9f9f90851e23>)

Author: Michael Ludden

Published: 2023-08-17T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [Turso](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/turso.md>), [benchmarking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/benchmarking.md>), [Latency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/latency.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>)

Tags: [benchmark](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/benchmark.md>), [benchmarking](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/benchmarking.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [edge](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/edge.md>), [latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/latency.md>), [turso](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/turso.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains why Turso built an edge benchmarking tool to make latency differences between centralized cloud databases and Turso easier to demonstrate.

## Source excerpt

We often get questions like this, and it's hard to properly convey in writing the potentially drastic latency differences between a typical centralized cloud database scenario and what Turso offers...