Adam Stachowiak
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The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source · Agents in the database (Interview) · 18 Dec 2025
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What's up, welcome back. This is The Change Log. We feature the hackers, the leaders, and those replacing SQLite. Yes, today we're joined by Glaber Costa, co-founder and CEO of Terso. Terso is an open source distributed database powered by LibSQL. which is described as the open contribution fork of SQLite.
We discussed their efforts with LibSQL, the challenge of SQLite being in the public domain and not having an opportunity for contribution, their choice to rewrite everything with Limbo, how this all plays into the future of the Terzo platform, how they test Limbo with deterministic simulation testing, also known as DST, and their plan to replace SQLite.
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I've been trying so hard to sound better, so thank you.
I think the public domain-ness of SQLite is unique. I think the not open to contribution is also quite unique. Very valid in the, in quotes, open source world. And even... they say on this public domain page they have, where they say warranty of title.
So if you are a company that needed something where you needed to be identified against the copyright infringement or anything happening inside this code base, it gets to be a little bit hairy trying to use SQLite in unique ways beyond. So it kind of makes sense, some of the challenges you had, and maybe the fork made the most sense, but ultimately the rewrite seems to make sense.
the most sense because what you want is the attributes of what SQL offers the world but not the And I don't want to say it like a negative thing because it's great, but it's dominated very well in the marketplace. I mean, it's used on Mars, I believe, right?
Yeah, I mean, like it's not... And Dr. Richard Hipp is one of our friends. We love him. We think he's an amazing person. But I think you are right, though, that the public domain-ness and the not open to contribution makes it challenging because that... And Dr. Richard Hipp even said on this podcast in the past that the test suite is proprietary in the fact that it's not in the open.
You can't see it. So making these large scale changes. So to build on top of what is SQLite, if that's your desire, becomes just problematic.
But you do believe that you can replace. You said, we believe we can replace SQLite.
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