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Can't use it locally (yet?) but it's definitely an interesting move in the space. For my personal projects lately I've been defaulting to sqlite in dev, and having a database wrapper layer to use something else in prod.

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> Can't use it locally

I'm imagining some insane replication behind the scenes, where every write is happening concurrently on a different SQLite DB, and then merged together sequentially into some master DB.

why not? Turso is a fully local database, you can just download the shell and use it as you would use sqlite.

More specifically, I didn't see any commits about multiple simultaneous writers having landed in main and it's not document as a feature in the release notes https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso/commits

neither the prerelease

https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso/releases/tag/v0.3.0-p...

nor their latest release.

https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso/releases/tag/v0.2.2

The core/mvcc directory does have commits though, so maybe you can.

https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso/commits/main/core/mvc...

You just have to pass the experimental flag. I thought this was explained in the blog ?

I searched https://turso.tech/blog/beyond-the-single-writer-limitation-... with ctrl-f for "download" and "--exp" and got no results for either. There was a link to a live demo webpage at the very end. Am I looking at the right blog? That's the one linked at the top of the page.

The flag is --experimental-mvcc, it is in the help for the shell. You are right that the blog failed to mention. I will get this fixed soon!! Thanks for noticing it.

Ah there it is! Thanks, I'll play around with it tonight.

There is a lot of work that still needs to be done to make this production-ready, both from a performance and reliability point of view, as we did our best to convey on the blog. We truly appreciate you trying it out! Report any issues, please.

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