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litefs
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Handle Incoming Webhooks with LiteJob for Ruby on Rails
Firstly, LiteJob's reliance on SQLite inherently restricts its horizontal scaling capabilities. Unlike other databases, SQLite is designed for single-machine use, making it challenging to distribute workload across multiple servers. This can certainly be done using novel technologies like LiteFS, but it is far from intuitive.
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Experimenting on the Edge with Turso (and Go)
Im curious to know if others have tried out Turso or LiteFS or any of the newer edge db providers that are popping up in 'real world' applications and what your experiences have been?
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Skip the API, Ship Your Database
Author here. I think we could have set better expectations with our Postgres docs. It wasn't meant to be a managed service but rather some tooling to help streamline setting up a database and replicas. I'm sorry about the troubles you've had and that it's come off as us being disingenuous. We blog about things that we're working on and find interesting. It's not meant say that we've figured everything out but rather this is what we've tried.
As for this post, it's not managed SQLite but rather an open source project called LiteFS [1]. You can run it anywhere that runs Linux. We use it in few places in our infrastructure and found that sharing the underlying database for internal tooling was really helpful for that use case.
[1]: https://github.com/superfly/litefs
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SQLedge: Replicate Postgres to SQLite on the Edge
#. SQLite WAL mode
From https://www.sqlite.org/isolation.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32247085 :
> [sqlite] WAL mode permits simultaneous readers and writers. It can do this because changes do not overwrite the original database file, but rather go into the separate write-ahead log file. That means that readers can continue to read the old, original, unaltered content from the original database file at the same time that the writer is appending to the write-ahead log
#. superfly/litefs: aFUSE-based file system for replicating SQLite https://github.com/superfly/litefs
#. sqldiff: https://www.sqlite.org/sqldiff.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31265005
#. dolthub/dolt: https://github.com/dolthub/dolt
> Dolt can be set up as a replica of your existing MySQL or MariaDB database using standard MySQL binlog replication. Every write becomes a Dolt commit. This is a great way to get the version control benefits of Dolt and keep an existing MySQL or MariaDB database.
#. pganalyze/libpg_query: https://github.com/pganalyze/libpg_query :
> C library for accessing the PostgreSQL parser outside of the server environment
#. Ibis + Substrait [ + DuckDB ]
> ibis strives to provide a consistent interface for interacting with a multitude of different analytical execution engines, most of which (but not all) speak some dialect of SQL.
> Today, Ibis accomplishes this with a lot of help from `sqlalchemy` and `sqlglot` to handle differences in dialect, or we interact directly with available Python bindings (for instance with the pandas, datafusion, and polars backends).
> [...] `Substrait` is a new cross-language serialization format for communicating (among other things) query plans. It's still in its early days, but there is already nascent support for Substrait in Apache Arrow, DuckDB, and Velox.
#. benbjohnson/postlite: https://github.com/benbjohnson/postlite
> postlite is a network proxy to allow access to remote SQLite databases over the Postgres wire protocol. This allows GUI tools to be used on remote SQLite databases which can make administration easier.
> The proxy works by translating Postgres frontend wire messages into SQLite transactions and converting results back into Postgres response wire messages. Many Postgres clients also inspect the pg_catalog to determine system information so Postlite mirrors this catalog by using an attached in-memory database with virtual tables. The proxy also performs minor rewriting on these system queries to convert them to usable SQLite syntax.
> Note: This software is in alpha. Please report bugs. Postlite doesn't alter your database unless you issue INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE commands so it's probably safe. If anything, the Postlite process may die but it shouldn't affect your database.
#. > "Hosting SQLite Databases on GitHub Pages" (2021) re: sql.js-httpvfs, DuckDB https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28021766
#. awesome-db-tools https://github.com/mgramin/awesome-db-tools
- Fly.io Postgres cluster went down for 3 days, no word from them about it
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LiteFS Cloud: Distributed SQLite with Managed Backups
LiteFS works sorta like that. It provides read replicas on all your application servers so you can use it just like vanilla SQLite for queries.
Write transactions have to occur on the primary node but that's mostly because of latency. SQLite operates in serializable isolation so it only allows one transaction at a time. If you wanted to have all nodes write then you'd need to acquire a lock on one node and then update it and then release the lock. We actually allow this on LiteFS using something called "write forwarding" but it's pretty slow so I wouldn't suggest it for regular use.
We're adding an optional a query API over HTTP [1] soon as well. It's inspired by Turso's approach. That'll let you issue one or more queries in a batch over HTTP and they'll be run in a single transaction.
[1]: https://github.com/superfly/litefs/issues/326
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We Raised a Bunch of Money
Basically, LiteFS: https://github.com/superfly/litefs
And then some load balancer cleverness that reroutes writes to a specific VM: https://fly.io/blog/globally-distributed-postgres/
- Mycelite: SQLite extension to synchronize changes across SQLite instances
- Database suggestion to store and retrieve data
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Key-value store has been added to Deno API
But my guess is they'll have an alternate implementation or something like LiteFS in Deno Deploy that will make this substantially more interesting when running in the Cloud.
electric
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Ask HN: How Can I Make My Front End React to Database Changes in Real-Time?
I'm interested in this problem also!
I think there is a large overlap with projects that market/focus on offline-first experiences.
AFAIK this problem can be solved by:
1) Considering a client-side copy of the database that gets synced with the remote DB. This is an approach [PowerSync](https://www.powersync.com/) and [ElectricSql](https://electric-sql.com/) and [rxdb](https://rxdb.info/) take!
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Cloudflare acquires PartyKit to allow developers to build real-time multi-user
Yeah I agree with it being an exaggeration. They are certainly riding the admittedly dated perception that realtime is so hard it's only available to the Googles and Figmas. But there's now some amazing open source solutions available like Y.js and ElectricSQL[1]. The barrier has certainly come down.
[1] https://github.com/electric-sql/electric
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PostgreSQL 16 Bi-Directional Logical Replication
https://github.com/electric-sql/electric :
> ElectricSQL is a local-first software platform that makes it easy to develop high-quality, modern apps with instant reactivity, realtime multi-user collaboration and conflict-free offline support.
> Local-first is a new development paradigm where your app code talks directly to an embedded local database and data syncs in the background via active-active database replication. Because the app code talks directly to a local database, apps feel instant. Because data syncs in the background via active-active replication it naturally supports multi-user collaboration and conflict-free offline
"SQLedge: Replicate Postgres to SQLite on the Edge" (2023)
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Show HN: PowerSync – Bi-directional Postgres<>SQLite sync for offline-first apps
Yup, this is correct.
We have had some requests / discussions around adding hooks to the sync service that will support custom logic on the write path (as per https://github.com/electric-sql/electric/discussions/565). This seems like a good idea but they don't exist yet.
- Electric SQL – Local-first sync layer for web and mobile apps
What are some alternatives?
litestream - Streaming replication for SQLite.
fulcro - A library for development of single-page full-stack web applications in clj/cljs
sqlite-s3vfs - Python writable virtual filesystem for SQLite on S3
cr-sqlite - Convergent, Replicated SQLite. Multi-writer and CRDT support for SQLite
dqlite - Embeddable, replicated and fault-tolerant SQL engine.
crdt-benchmarks - A collection of CRDT benchmarks
mvsqlite - Distributed, MVCC SQLite that runs on FoundationDB.
wundergraph - WunderGraph is a Backend for Frontend Framework to optimize frontend, fullstack and backend developer workflows through API Composition.
Bedrock - Rock solid distributed database specializing in active/active automatic failover and WAN replication
multiversion-concurrency-control - Implementation of multiversion concurrency control, Raft, Left Right concurrency Hashmaps and a multi consumer multi producer Ringbuffer, concurrent and parallel load-balanced loops, parallel actors implementation in Main.java, Actor2.java and a parallel interpreter
marmot - A distributed SQLite replicator built on top of NATS
mycelite - Mycelite is a SQLite extension that allows you to synchronize changes from one instance of SQLite to another.