There are four ways to build and run sqld:
- Download a prebuilt binary
- Using Homebrew
- Using a prebuilt Docker image
- From source using Docker/Podman
- From source using Rust
You can simply run launch the executable with no command line arguments to run
an instance of sqld. By default, sqld listens on 127.0.0.1 port 8080 and
persists database data in a directory ./data.sqld
.
Use the --help
flag to discover how to change its runtime behavior.
You can query sqld using one of the provided client libraries.
You can also use the turso cli to connect to the sqld instance:
turso db shell http://127.0.0.1:8000
The libsql-server release page for this repository lists released versions of sqld along with downloads for macOS and Linux.
The sqld formulae for Homebrew works with macOS, Linux (including WSL).
brew tap libsql/sqld
brew install sqld
This builds and installs the binary sqld
into $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/bin/sqld
,
which should be in your PATH.
sqld --help
The sqld release process publishes a Docker image to the GitHub Container Registry. The URL is https://ghcr.io/tursodatabase/libsql-server. You can run the latest image locally on port 8080 with the following:
docker run -p 8080:8080 -d ghcr.io/tursodatabase/libsql-server:latest
Or you can run a specific version using one of the sqld container release tags in the following form for version X.Y.Z:
docker run -p 8080:8080 -d ghcr.io/tursodatabase/libsql-server:vX.Y.Z
To build sqld with Docker, you must have a Docker installed and running on your machine with its CLI in your shell PATH.
Clone this repo using your preferred mechanism. You may want to use one of the sqld release tags.
Run the following to build a Docker image named "libsql/sqld" tagged with version "latest".
docker build -t libsql/sqld:latest .
Check that sqld built successfully using its --help flag:
docker container run \
--rm \
-i \
libsql/sqld \
/bin/sqld --help
The following will create a volume named sqld-data
that sqld uses to persist
database files.
docker volume create sqld-data
The following uses the built image to create and run a new container named
sqld
, attaching the sqld-data
volume to it, and exposing its port 8080
locally:
docker container run \
-d \
--name sqld \
-v sqld-data:/var/lib/sqld \
-p 127.0.0.1:8080:8080 \
libsql/sqld:latest
8080 is the default port for the sqld HTTP service that handles client queries.
With this container running, you can use the URL http://127.0.0.1:8080
or
ws://127.0.0.1:8080
to configure one of the libSQL client SDKs for local
development.
In the sqld output using --help
from step 3, you saw the names of command line
flags along with the names of environment variables (look for "env:") used to
configure the way sqld works.
To build from source, you must have a Rust development environment installed and available in your PATH.
Currently we only support building sqld on macOS and Linux (including WSL). We are working native Windows build instructions.
Clone this repo using your preferred mechanism. You may want to use one of the sqld release tags.
Change to the libsql-server
directory.
cargo build
The sqld binary will be in ./target/debug/sqld
.
Check that sqld built successfully using its --help flag:
./target/debug/sqld --help
The following starts sqld, taking the following defaults:
- Local files stored in the directory
./data.sqld
- Client HTTP requests on 127.0.0.1:8080
./target/debug/sqld
8080 is the default port for the sqld HTTP service that handles client queries.
With this container running, you can use the URL http://127.0.0.1:8080
or
ws://127.0.0.1:8080
to configure one of the libSQL client SDKs for local
development.
cargo xtask test