libSQL
Open source fork of SQLite, embeddable as a library, with a server mode (sqld) for remote access over HTTP.
libSQL is an open source fork of SQLite, maintained by Turso. It is a library that runs inside the program that uses it, and its server mode, sqld, is a SQL daemon that serves the database to other clients. sqld installs from a prebuilt binary, with Homebrew, from a Docker image on ghcr.io, or by building from source with a Rust toolchain. The Rust crate published on crates.io under the name libsql comes from the same repository.
Worth knowing
The README says libSQL is actively maintained while new features are being developed in Turso, a separate database it describes as not a fork of SQLite, and it advises new projects to look at Turso first.
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- 2026-10-29: name, License
github.com/tursodatabase/libsql - 2026-10-29: links, Written in, GitHub stars
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crates.io/api/v1/crates/libsql - 2026-10-29: First release
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