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libsql
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Show HN: Roast my SQLite encryption at-rest
> PS: I've got nothing against Turso, or libSQL. In fact I spent the last year perusing their virtual WAL API. The problem is that I found no documentation, nor any useful open source implementations of it. If there any I'd be very interested. So, thus far, I also don't have anything that drives towards libSQL.
Hey, this is v and I am an engineer at Turso. We do have some documentation and an example implementation of Virtual WAL
docs: https://github.com/tursodatabase/libsql/blob/ef44612/libsql-...
example: https://github.com/tursodatabase/libsql/blob/ef44612/libsql-...
for an open source implementation, you may check how Bottomless works. Bottomless is another project which does back up like litestream and it internally implements a Virtual WAL.
Bottomless - https://github.com/tursodatabase/libsql/tree/main/bottomless
I am sure we can improve our docs, make it more discover-able and easy to find. I am open to feedback and suggestions!
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11 Planetscale alternatives with free tiers
Astro DB is powered by LibSQL, an open source fork of SQLite that was created by Turso. You can use Astro DB's drop-in database to build features like blogs, comment functionality, forums, feedback systems, and user authentication.
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"If this one guy got hit by a bus, the software would fall apart."
sqlite already had an active community fork started by Turso called libsql. They are fixing longstanding API gaps the upstream team isn’t interested in supporting. For example, they added a native write-ahead log API, so you can plug directly into the WAL for streaming replication. This is possible-ish with upstream sqlite + LiteFs but litefs has to implement a whole FUSE file system and can’t run on Mac for that reason.
It’s more risky to run libsql because new features mean new bugs, but it seems worth it to me.
Libsql: https://github.com/tursodatabase/libsql
- Sqld – A Server Mode for LibSQL
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Show HN: My Go SQLite driver did poorly on a benchmark, so I fixed it
A bit of a tangent but for those who’d like to use SQLite for a backend, running it as a separate daemon could be an interesting choice, which would also remove there need of Cgo for the build and maybe make things like separate background job processes easier to accomplish. See [1], [2].
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1: https://github.com/tursodatabase/libsql/tree/main/libsql-ser...
2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38602175
- LibSQL, a fork of SQLite accepting third-party contributions
- FLaNK Stack Weekly for 14 Aug 2023
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SQLite builds for WASI since 3.41.0
https://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html
To summarize, instead of using one of the OSS licenses, the copyright holders simply declare the source to be in the public domain. In order to preserve that status they don't accept patches unless you submit some signed document that you agree with that.
To make things more complicated, they also use their a relatively niche version management system instead of git. Which would complicate making contributions (if they accepted them).
There's a popular fork that fixes all of these issues: https://github.com/libsql/libsql It is MIT licensed, on Github, and open for contributions.
Kind of a weird legal situation for a popular project like this that so many people depend on to have. Not judging; but it is odd. Seems like a lot of wasted efforts between users, would be contributors, and the people that forked this thing to address all that.
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SQLite is not a toy database
You could try making feature requests for https://github.com/libsql/libsql , which is a community fork of SQLite that aims to speed-up the development of long-wanted features.
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Get started with libSQL, a next-gen fork of SQLite
For a comprehensive view, check out the issues list for libSQL core and sqld. But mostly, I want libSQL to be a home for all builders who believe there is room to take a lean, mean, and SQLite-compatible embedded database to new heights. I’d love to see your contribution!
sqld
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LiteFS Cloud: Distributed SQLite with Managed Backups
There's https://github.com/libsql/sqld , but sqlite's concurrency model doesn't always work well with long-lived transactions (and just the network hop can be slower than a local transaction), especially if you want to write.
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Get started with libSQL, a next-gen fork of SQLite
For instructions on how to build sqld from source, see the docs.
- Help me sell sqlite to my boss
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Litestream is awesome for backing up sqlite databases
I also discovered https://github.com/libsql/sqld/ which provides similar functionality ("Bottomless replication"), and exposes the database over the network via the Postgres protocol. I haven't played with this yet, but it would be neat to try running some apps that require Postgres with this.
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Early impressions of Turso, the edge database from ChiselStrike
There are some language-specific clients suited for data transaction with a Turso database, such as @libsql/client for TypeScript, libsql-client for Python, and libsql-client for Rust(currently works with Cloudflare workers), but for simplicity, we’re going to use curl scripts. We’ll interact with the database by sending HTTP POST requests containing the JSON-encoded SQL queries that we’d otherwise run on the SQL shell as already demonstrated. By supporting database interaction via the HTTP protocol, Turso guarantees easy access from all types of applications, especially edge functions.
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SQLite-based databases on the Postgres protocol? Yes we can
- And you can embed it in your application and it will really talk to a "SQLite" database over the network: https://github.com/libsql/sqld (not a lot on consistency, I wonder how multiple writers are handled?)
- In 3 months, libsql released WASM functions, S3 WAL and network database sqld
- Sqld – a server mode for libSQL (SQLite fork) using the PostgreSQL wire protocol
- Sqld is a server mode for libSQL
What are some alternatives?
rqlite - The lightweight, distributed relational database built on SQLite.
litefs-js - JavaScript utilities for working with LiteFS on Fly.io
litellm - Call all LLM APIs using the OpenAI format. Use Bedrock, Azure, OpenAI, Cohere, Anthropic, Ollama, Sagemaker, HuggingFace, Replicate (100+ LLMs)
mycelite - Mycelite is a SQLite extension that allows you to synchronize changes from one instance of SQLite to another.
jdbc-connector-for-apache-kafka - Aiven's JDBC Sink and Source Connectors for Apache Kafka®
StorX - PHP library for flat-file data storage
stream-sqlite - Python function to extract rows from a SQLite file while iterating over its bytes
StorX-API - A REST API for StorX
bottomless
donutdb - Store and query a sqlite db directly backed by DynamoDB.