storage-format

📁 tursodatabase/turso 📅 Jan 28, 2026
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npx skills add https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso --skill storage-format

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claude-code 190
github-copilot 79
codex 15
opencode 15
gemini-cli 14
replit 11

Skill 文档

Storage Format Guide

Database File Structure

┌─────────────────────────────┐
│ Page 1: Header + Schema     │  ← First 100 bytes = DB header
├─────────────────────────────┤
│ Page 2..N: B-tree pages     │  ← Tables and indexes
│            Overflow pages   │
│            Freelist pages   │
└─────────────────────────────┘

Page size: power of 2, 512-65536 bytes. Default 4096.

Database Header (First 100 Bytes)

Offset Size Field
0 16 Magic: "SQLite format 3\0"
16 2 Page size (big-endian)
18 1 Write format version (1=rollback, 2=WAL)
19 1 Read format version
24 4 Change counter
28 4 Database size in pages
32 4 First freelist trunk page
36 4 Total freelist pages
40 4 Schema cookie
56 4 Text encoding (1=UTF8, 2=UTF16LE, 3=UTF16BE)

All multi-byte integers: big-endian.

Page Types

Flag Type Purpose
0x02 Interior index Index B-tree internal node
0x05 Interior table Table B-tree internal node
0x0a Leaf index Index B-tree leaf
0x0d Leaf table Table B-tree leaf
Overflow Payload exceeding cell capacity
Freelist Unused pages (trunk or leaf)

B-tree Structure

Two B-tree types:

  • Table B-tree: 64-bit rowid keys, stores row data
  • Index B-tree: Arbitrary keys (index columns + rowid)
Interior page:  [ptr0] key1 [ptr1] key2 [ptr2] ...
                   │         │         │
                   ▼         ▼         ▼
               child     child     child
               pages     pages     pages

Leaf page:     key1:data  key2:data  key3:data ...

Page 1 always root of sqlite_schema table.

Cell Format

Table Leaf Cell

[payload_size: varint] [rowid: varint] [payload] [overflow_ptr: u32?]

Table Interior Cell

[left_child_page: u32] [rowid: varint]

Index Cells

Similar but key is arbitrary (columns + rowid), not just rowid.

Record Format (Payload)

[header_size: varint] [type1: varint] [type2: varint] ... [data1] [data2] ...

Serial types:

Type Meaning
0 NULL
1-4 1/2/3/4 byte signed int
5 6 byte signed int
6 8 byte signed int
7 IEEE 754 float
8 Integer 0
9 Integer 1
≥12 even BLOB, length=(N-12)/2
≥13 odd Text, length=(N-13)/2

Overflow Pages

When payload exceeds threshold, excess stored in overflow chain:

[next_page: u32] [data...]

Last page has next_page=0.

Freelist

Linked list of trunk pages, each containing leaf page numbers:

Trunk: [next_trunk: u32] [leaf_count: u32] [leaf_pages: u32...]

Turso Implementation

Key files:

  • core/storage/sqlite3_ondisk.rs – On-disk format, PageType enum
  • core/storage/btree.rs – B-tree operations (large file)
  • core/storage/pager.rs – Page management
  • core/storage/buffer_pool.rs – Page caching

Debugging Storage

# Integrity check
cargo run --bin tursodb test.db "PRAGMA integrity_check;"

# Page count
cargo run --bin tursodb test.db "PRAGMA page_count;"

# Freelist info
cargo run --bin tursodb test.db "PRAGMA freelist_count;"

References