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Supabase acquires Turso to build on-demand databases for agents

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Supabase says it is launching more than one million databases per week and wants cheap, on-demand databases with a path to production as agents build more software. That demand raises important provisioning and scaling questions for agent-oriented infrastructure.

What: - Supabase is acquiring Turso to build on-demand databases for the growing volume of software agents create.
How: - Turso rebuilt SQLite in Rust; a single server can manage millions of databases, loading them when needed and suspending them when idle.
Why it matters: - The design supports inexpensive per-agent databases for small workloads, with a path to Postgres as applications scale.

Agents provision databases through Turso Cloud, whose server loads and suspends them as needed. Sketched from the article's own text.

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