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Turso SQLite Offline Sync Public Beta

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221 points charlieirish | 1 comments | 31 Mar 25 15:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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billconan ◴[31 Mar 25 15:30 UTC] No.43536188[source]▶
This sounds great, but I have some questions regarding data integrity and security.

If I build an offline first app using Turso, will my client directly exchange data with the database, without a layer of backend APIs to guarantee data integrity and security? For example, certain db write is only permitted for certain users, but when the db API is exposed, will that cause problems? A concrete example would be a forum where only moderators can remove users and posts. Say if I build an offline first forum, can a hacker hack the database on the filesystem and utilize the syncing feature to propagate the hacked data to the server?

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1. tracker1 ◴[31 Mar 25 16:02 UTC] No.43536534[source]▶
I'm pretty sure you'll have to write parts of your app against your own APIs that represent the owner of the db for a group.

With Turso, you would want a model that had, for example a db per user and one per group. With the turso model you want to think something closer to sharding by hand for secure write user or group.

I could be wrong on this though. That's just my rough understanding.