Turso

Introduction#

Turso is a cloud database platform built on libSQL, an open-source fork of SQLite.

It is designed for edge and serverless environments — each database is a lightweight SQLite file hosted on the cloud, accessible over HTTP from any runtime (Node.js, Deno, Bun, browsers, Cloudflare Workers, Netlify Edge Functions, etc.).

Key features:

• SQLite-compatible — standard SQL, no new query language to learn
• Serverless-first — connects over HTTP/WebSockets, no persistent connection needed
• Global replication — replicate databases closer to users with embedded replicas
• Free tier — generous limits for development and small projects

Cloud#

Refer to the official Turso Cloud documentation for more information.

Quickstart

Quick Start#

Install the Turso CLI using the following command:

curl -sSfL https://get.tur.so/install.sh | bash

The next command will open your browser to sign up:

turso auth signup

Now create your first database with the name my-db:

turso db create my-db

You can inspect your new database using the following command:

turso db show my-db