# tursodatabase/turso

A SQL database in Rust: SQLite-compatible, now also speaking Postgres (experimental). The LLVM of databases.

Repository: https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/turso
Language: Rust
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: database, embedded-database, sql, sqlite3, webassembly
Last push: 2026-08-27T00:27:54+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 93/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 95, longevity 78
- inputs: {"age_days": 1103, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 34, "gap_med": 14, "n_releases_24m": 44}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 24027, forks 1287 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:35.505937+00:00)

## What it is
Turso is an in-process SQL database written in Rust that is compatible with SQLite and experimentally supports a Postgres frontend. Like SQLite, it compiles SQL into bytecode for an internal virtual machine, and ships bindings for Rust, JavaScript, Python, and Java.

## Use cases
- embed a SQLite-compatible SQL database in a Rust application
- replace SQLite with a Rust-native database engine
- run SQL queries in-process without a separate database server
- use a SQLite-compatible database from Python or Node.js
- run a SQL database compiled to WebAssembly in the browser
- experiment with a Postgres wire-compatible embedded database

## When to choose
- you want SQLite compatibility with a modern Rust implementation
- you need an embedded, in-process database with no server dependency
- you want multi-language bindings (Rust, JS, Python, Java) for an embedded SQL engine
- you want to run SQL in WebAssembly environments

## When to avoid
- you need full Postgres feature support today (the Postgres frontend is experimental)
- you need a client-server database with network access out of the box
- you require battle-tested stability equivalent to SQLite for critical production workloads

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: database, database-driver, interpreter, wasm
- domain: databases, developer-tools, backend
- platform: cross-platform, rust, python, wasm, jvm
- tags: sqlite-compatible, embedded-database, sql, postgres-frontend, in-process-database, bytecode-vm, nodejs

## Member repositories
- tursodatabase/turso (main) score 93

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:35.505937+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:56:18.064139+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:35.505937+00:00, sha b523dd332a49)
  - registry_crates: https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/turso (fetched 2026-08-29T07:53:46.046599+00:00, sha d2df65eddca6)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.