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We're building Postgres in Rust. Using the LLVM of databases

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Building Postgres in Rust with LLVM-like architecture, highly relevant to databases and systems.

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We're building Postgres in Rust. Using the LLVM of databases
Summary

Turso is building a Postgres-compatible database in Rust, using its existing SQLite-compatible engine as the "LLVM of databases" — a single core supporting multiple frontends. The architecture delivers concurrent writes via MVCC, self-updating materialized views, and async execution for embedded/browser use, with reliability ensured through deterministic simulation, Antithesis, and formal methods. The open-source project, with 260+ contributors, welcomes AI contributions and aims to replicate the Linux kernel's meritocratic contribution culture.

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Glauber Costa