IN SEARCH OF A FASTER SQLITE

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

Researchers from the University of Helsinki and Cambridge developed Limbo, a Rust-based rewrite of SQLite. Their approach uses asynchronous I/O using io_uring, eliminating the blocking behavior of traditional SQLite's synchronous I/O calls. This, coupled with storage disaggregation, reduces tail latency (up to 100x improvement at p999), leading to more efficient concurrency in multi-tenant serverless environments.