
Turso Has a Free Edge Database — SQLite That Replicates Globally
SQLite Is the Most Deployed Database in the World Every iPhone has it. Every Android has it. Every browser has it. It handles trillions of transactions daily. But SQLite has always had one limitation: it is a local file. You cannot share it between servers. Turso: SQLite Goes Global Turso takes SQLite and makes it work like a distributed database. Your data lives at the edge, close to your users. Free Tier 500 databases (not a typo) 9GB total storage 25 billion row reads/month Unlimited locations for replication No credit card required How It Works Turso uses libSQL , their open-source fork of SQLite. It adds: HTTP API — query from anywhere, not just local processes Replication — data syncs to edge locations worldwide Embedded replicas — sync a full copy to your app for zero-latency reads Connect in 3 Lines import { createClient } from ' @libsql/client ' const db = createClient ({ url : ' libsql://your-db-turso.turso.io ' , authToken : ' your-token ' }) const result = await db . execut
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