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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
marmot
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Distributed SQLite: Paradigm shift or hype?
If you're willing to accept eventual consistency (a big ask, but acceptable in some scenarios) then there are options like marmot [1] that replicate cdc over nats.
[1]: https://github.com/maxpert/marmot
- Marmot: Multi-writer distributed SQLite based on NATS
- Why you should probably be using SQLite
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The Raft Consensus Algorithm
I've written a whole SQLite replication system that works on top of RAFT ( https://github.com/maxpert/marmot ). Best part is RAFT has a well understood and strong library ecosystem as well. I started of with libraries and when I noticed I am reimplementing distributed streams, I just took off the shelf implementation (https://docs.nats.io/nats-concepts/jetstream) and embedded it in system. I love the simplicity and reasoning that comes with RAFT. However I am playing with epaxos these days (https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dga/papers/epaxos-sosp2013.pdf), because then I can truly decentralize the implementation for truly masterless implementation. Right now I've added sharding mechanism on various streams so that in high load cases masters can be distributed across nodes too.
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SQLedge: Replicate Postgres to SQLite on the Edge
Very interesting! I have question ( out of my experience in https://github.com/maxpert/marmot ) how do get around the boot time, specially when a change log of table is pretty large in Postgres? I've implemented snapshotting mechanism in Marmot as part of quickly getting up to speed. At some level I wonder if we can just feed this PG replication log into NATS cluster and Marmot can just replicate it across the board.
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Show HN: Blueprint for a distributed multi-region IAM with Go and CockroachDB
One of the reasons I started writing Marmot (https://maxpert.github.io/marmot/) was for replicating bunch of tables across regions that were read heavy. I even used it for cache replication (because who cares if it’s a cache miss, but a hit will save me time and money). It’s hard to make such blue prints in early days of product, and by the time you hit a true growth almost everyone builds a custom solution for multi-region IAM.
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Stalwart All-in-One Mail Server (IMAP, JMAP, SMTP)
Amazing I was just looking for a good mail server to configure for my demo. Which reminds me since you folks have mentioned LiteStream, have you tried Marmot (https://github.com/maxpert/marmot); I recently configured Isso with Marmot to scale it out horizontally (https://maxpert.github.io/marmot/demo). I am super curious what kind of write workload on a sub thousand people organization will have and if Marmot can help scale it horizontally without Foundation DB. I always find the the convenience of SQLite amazing.
- Marmot: A distributed SQLite replicator built on top of NATS
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LiteFS Cloud: Distributed SQLite with Managed Backups
Great that you brought it up. I will fill in the perspective of what I am doing for solving this in Marmot (https://github.com/maxpert/marmot). Today Marmot already records changes via installing triggers to record changes of a table, hence all the offline changes (while Marmot is not running) are never lost. Today when Marmot comes up after a long offline (depending upon max_log_size configuration), it realizes that and tries to catch up changes via restoring a snapshot and then applying rest of logs from NATS (JetStream) change logs. I am working on change that will be publishing those change logs to NATS before it restores snapshots, and once it reapplies those changes after restoring snapshot everyone will have your changes + your DB will be up to date. Now in this case one of the things that bothers people is the fact that if two nodes coming up with conflicting rows the last writer wins.
For that I am also exploring on SQLite-Y-CRDT (https://github.com/maxpert/sqlite-y-crdt) which can help me treat each row as document, and then try to merge them. I personally think CRDT gets harder to reason sometimes, and might not be explainable to an entry level developers. Usually when something is hard to reason and explain, I prefer sticking to simplicity. People IMO will be much more comfortable knowing they can't use auto incrementing IDs for particular tables (because two independent nodes can increment counter to same values) vs here is a magical way to merge that will mess up your data.
What are some alternatives?
litefs-js - JavaScript utilities for working with LiteFS on Fly.io
pocketbase - Open Source realtime backend in 1 file
mycelite - Mycelite is a SQLite extension that allows you to synchronize changes from one instance of SQLite to another.
cr-sqlite - Convergent, Replicated SQLite. Multi-writer and CRDT support for SQLite
StorX - PHP library for flat-file data storage
litefs - FUSE-based file system for replicating SQLite databases across a cluster of machines
StorX-API - A REST API for StorX
wordpress-playground - Run WordPress in the browser via WebAssembly PHP
stream-sqlite - Python function to extract rows from a SQLite file while iterating over its bytes
mssql-changefeed
donutdb - Store and query a sqlite db directly backed by DynamoDB.
rqlite - The lightweight, distributed relational database built on SQLite.