Twelve years of distributed SQLite
In September 2014 I published a short post announcing rqlite. The idea was simple: take SQLite, put a Raft log in front of it, and replicate every write to a cluster so that the loss of a node did not mean the loss of the data. The source went on GitHub that same weekend. As…
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A personal retrospective tracing the twelve-year history of rqlite and the broader category of distributed SQLite projects, starting from 2014. It explains how different projects approached replicating or protecting SQLite - consensus clusters, WAL streaming, and CRDT/merge strategies - and why each approach suits different needs.
- rqlite: leader-based Raft replication for strong consistency
- Litestream: WAL streaming to S3 for cheap single-node recovery
- cr-sqlite/libSQL: merge/engine changes for multi-writer or hosted services
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