Will Turso Be The Better SQLite?

I dunno, Betteridge's law of headlines is giving long odds...

I'm really rooting for Turso to succeed. A fully-open SQLite + vector search + encryption is already a very good value proposition for me. Throw in sync + upcoming features, and I really see it becoming an amazing product.

It's hard to trust a VC-backed startup with such a fundamental part of an app, though. They do use the same SQLite file format, so that should at least offer a possible way out in case they go belly-up or get acquired.

To me it also seems a bit worrying that, if I understand correctly, they basically abandoned development development on libSQL. I completely understand, and it does make more sense to focus on one thing only. Still, I was considering using it a few months back and now I feel like I dodged a bullet. Seeing they now also started working on AgentFS makes me fear for another pivot.