Turso Has a Free Embedded Database That Syncs Globally — SQLite at the Edge With libSQL

The Edge Database Problem Cloudflare D1 is Cloudflare-only. PlanetScale is MySQL-only. Most databases have one region — adding a read replica costs $50+/month. Turso distributes SQLite globally. Your data replicates to edge locations automatically. Based on libSQL, a fork of SQLite. What Turso Gives You Embedded Replicas import { createClient } from '@libsql/client'; const db = createClient({ url: 'file:local.db', syncUrl: 'libsql://your-db.turso.io', authToken: 'your-token', }); // Reads hit local SQLite file — zero latency const users = await db.execute('SELECT * FROM users'); // Writes go to primary, then sync to replicas await db.execute('INSERT INTO users (name) VALUES (?)', ['John']); // Manual sync await db.sync(); Your app has a local SQLite copy. Reads are instant. Writes propagate globally. Multi-Region Replication # Create database turso db create my-app # Add replicas turso db replicate my-app --location ams # Amsterdam turso db replicate my-app --location nrt # Tokyo turso