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In other words, they are creating their own database and hitching on to the SQLite brand to market it. (That's fine though).
by thisislife2 9mo ago
In other words, they are creating their own database and hitching on to the SQLite brand to market it. (That's fine though).
- dlisboa 9mo agoI think it's fair to say they tried using SQLite but apparently had to bail out. Their use case is a distributed DBaaS with local-first semantics, they started out with SQLite and only now seem to be pivoting to "SQLite-compatible". Building off of that into a SQLite-compatible DB doesn't seem to me as trying to piggyback on the brand. They have no other option as their product was SQLite to begin with.
- IshKebab 9mo agoNo that's completely incorrect. It's compatible with SQLite, not just in the same spirit: > SQLite compatibility for SQL dialect, file formats, and the C API
- yencabulator 9mo agoIt stopped being compatible with SQLite even before the Rust rewrite: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42386894 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42386894
- IshKebab 9mo agoThat doesn't seem very fair. It's still beta and clearly far from finished. And they do call out the compromises - they have a whole page about how they are not yet fully compatible: https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso/blob/main/COMPAT.md https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso/blob/main/COMPAT.md
- shimman 9mo agoI don't think that's fine at all, it's quite a shitty thing to do hoenstly and I'm not surprised it's a VC backed company doing it.
- fragmede 9mo agoHow would you do it then?
- shimman 9mo agoI'd probably wouldn't ride the coattails of another open source project that provides hundreds of billions in value for free annually for anyone on this Earth in order to make a quick buck. IDK I have morals and it seems if you want VC funding you must lack them. It's no different than the hucksters that take public domain books and slut them up in order to make some coin peddling smut.