Supabase is acquiring Turso

(supabase.com)

97 points | by cvburgess 1 hour ago

20 comments

  • polyterative 3 minutes ago
    Could be fun.made product on top of it.Pro plan is still too much, but free quota is too little.having a hard time balancing my hobby project.Still there's not really many alternatives, so probably we'll stick with it.Decent service.
  • f311a 58 minutes ago
    I hope they will put more resources into fixing issues. I remember there were multiple attempts to add it to ClickBench, but each time new bugs were found.

    It should not be X times slower than SQLite.

    https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickBench/issues/336

    https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickBench/pull/1009

    • menaerus 27 minutes ago
      On 22nd of July

      > It was loading the data for a week already, and the speed of loading data has dropped to 4 kilobytes per second, and it will take years to load the dataset.

      And then on 2nd of August

      > It loaded maybe 1% of the data so far.

      And then one year after

      > I didn't load the data after a year. > I tried it with the fsync removed, but even then it does not work

      Ok, I find this more entertaining than I should and almost unbelievable. I know that this codebase was heavily written by LLMs but the execution can't be this bad?

      What am I missing and why would Supabase buy the product which can't even load the dataset properly?

      • gpm 8 minutes ago
        You're looking at a software project months after its inception, saying it didn't work well then, and then asking why someone would buy it well over a year later...
      • ambicapter 16 minutes ago
        Also hilarious that the rebuttal comment after a year had passed was "why are you using this release which is a year old"
        • gpm 8 minutes ago
          That rebuttal comment was posted in response to a comment that was 4 days old, not a year old.
  • integrallis 13 minutes ago
    Supabase is a great product, we use it for all of our products, but we also need OSS solutions that can be self-hosted. For Supabase, I hope the platform improves. SQLite has become the standard, we need that standard (other than the SQL93 part) to be created and maintained so that other can drop a paid for product and handle the server-side themselves is the choose to.
    • apsurd 0 minutes ago
      Agree. supabase is a great product for prototyping. Their free tier is really helpful. But the value of instant access to a real postgres db is also where inevitable pain comes from. A prototype is fun until it's not and I've never managed to maintain app-based side projects longer than a few months. Only static deployments survive.

      Supabase was really early in the "throwaway full-stack environments" space. Very helpful but I find myself moving to edge networks with sqlite in spite of my dislike for javascript.

    • kvirani 1 minute ago
      Sqlite has become the standard? I've been out for a couple years but this is news to me. What does it mean though? Standard for what?
  • vmg12 1 hour ago
    This is great, I was a little worried that the turso project's future was tied to the success of turso the company and it has impacted a few of my technical choices and has resulted in me choosing sqlite over turso a few times.

    I'll likely be choosing turso going forward for projects.

    • aniceperson 17 minutes ago
      ? are you seriously preferring a vibe coded project over the war tested sqlite?
      • vmg12 13 minutes ago
        1. I've looked at how Turso verifies the correctness of their db and I'm satisfied with it.

        2. Turso supports features I want that don't exist and will not exist in sqlite.

        I mean this is pretty obvious, I'm not using sqlite because it doesn't do what I want it to do. I also don't understand the repeated "sqlite is the best tested software" sentiment. I don't care if it's the best tested if it doesn't do what I want it to do.

  • mhalikosen 12 minutes ago
    I didn't know the company, but it turns out they have a great mindset.
  • arnath 22 minutes ago
    Why would you rewrite something that’s widely considered one of the best written and tested pieces of software in the world?
    • dd8601fn 14 minutes ago
      The Rust rewrite? I had the same question.

      It’s fast, with unparalleled stability, arguably better managed than any other software on earth, deployed on literally everything, so let’s… fork it for street cred?

      • smt88 8 minutes ago
        Rewriting in Rust is usually an exercise in reducing serious security vulnerabilities and memory bugs, not improving speed or stability.

        But with LLMs and massive, human-written test suites, rewrites aren’t a bad idea like they used to be. Rust is a perfect target language because it’s compiler is so strict and surfaces issues in a way that’s easy for either humans or LLMs to use.

    • levkk 19 minutes ago
      That's how you push the field forward. Good isn't good enough.
    • loufe 14 minutes ago
      Best tested..? The test data/suite is private. That alone is quite odd.
  • theflyingelvis 1 hour ago
    I use Turso for a small project. Seems to work well. Hope this doesn’t change
  • jackwsmth 1 hour ago
    Always been a fan of Supabase, but didn't expect this. Curious to see what comes of it!
  • buckleyourshoe 1 hour ago
    We use Turso for async in Rust projects. It's performance has been very good. Looking forward to what comes from this
  • mhalikosen 13 minutes ago
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  • brainless 55 minutes ago
    I do not feel good about this. I really want SQLite (and the Turso re-write of it) to win for tiny apps that people will build more and more with LLMs. Desktop or server. Even serverless.

    The core tech is open source so that is good. Will it stay? I guess Turso hosting was not making enough revenue?

    • glommer 30 minutes ago
      Turso CEO here. We were doing fine.

      This is a strategic acquisition and I fell in love with the vision Supabase had for how they would use Turso going forward.

      More to come

      • brainless 23 minutes ago
        Thanks but you do understand this makes it hard for folks to select Turso. With all good intentions parent companies kill acquisitions.

        Supabase is hosted Postgres with wings. Turso seemed like it would be the same but using SQLite based approach.

        So either Supabase now uses the Turso sync + Postgres or something that needs Turso or abandons it. Not sure and I am not asking, just sharing my thoughts.

        Love what you folks have been doing.

    • ezekg 37 minutes ago
      > I guess Turso hosting was not making enough revenue?

      I would guess it's more that the founders want to exit before AI replaces them. (Based on the doom-and-gloom narrative in tech right now...)

      • brainless 22 minutes ago
        I am fully onboard with LLM generated code if that is what you mean. I literally get client work titled "Need Claude led Engineer". SQLite is a great option for the LLM enabled future.
      • glommer 31 minutes ago
        lol
    • pmbauer 41 minutes ago
      > Turso will continue operating, with a clear path into the broader Supabase ecosystem as workloads grow.
      • brainless 20 minutes ago
        You mean, it has never happened that an acquiring company said this and then closed the acquired tech?
    • rvz 40 minutes ago
      > The core tech is open source so that is good. Will it stay? I guess Turso hosting was not making enough revenue?

      You just answered your own question. Why would anyone pay for Turso if the core of the software is available for free and being licenced permissively under MIT?

      • _bohm 37 minutes ago
        Because they don't want to self-host/manage it. It looks like this is an acquisition, not an acquihire, so it's unclear whether or not Turso was making enough to sustain itself or not. There are plenty of companies out there who release open source software and make money off of hosted/managed offerings of it.
        • glommer 32 minutes ago
          Turso CEO here.

          We were doing fine.

          This is a strategic acquisition and I fell in love with the vision Supabase had for how they would use Turso going forward.

          More to come

      • ezekg 35 minutes ago
        Liability. Compliance. Chain-of-responsibility. Risk. This has always been the case in business, and it will continue to be the case (at least until artificial intelligence actually replaces that need).
      • brainless 18 minutes ago
        Huh? Supabase is also that. Lots of tech is like this. Parent company makes money from hosting, services, enterprise feature seats, etc.
  • rvz 44 minutes ago
    Open source never pays the bills, nor do users here ever pay for open source.
    • glommer 30 minutes ago
      our cloud pays the bill just fine though.
  • popalchemist 25 minutes ago
    I feel like this makes a lot of sense and is a rare win-win-win (supabase-turso-customers being the parties).
  • lpgauth 37 minutes ago
    Congrats Glauber!
  • FLeXMurphy 23 minutes ago
    it's glommer
  • drewbitt 46 minutes ago
    Nooooooooo
  • kilroy123 1 hour ago
    UGH as a turso customer, I do not want this.
    • glommer 29 minutes ago
      Write me a message to my email directly or hit me up on Discord.

      We are very excited to be a part of Supabase

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