SQLite-on-the-Server Is Misunderstood: Better at Hyper-Scale Than Micro-Scale

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  1. td

    Cross-platform library for building Telegram clients

    TDLib (Telegram Database library)[0] uses SQLite.

    In Telegram Bot API, each TDLib instance handles more than 24,000 active bots simultaneously.[1]

    [0]: https://github.com/tdlib/td

    [1]: https://core.telegram.org/tdlib

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  3. litestream

    Streaming replication for SQLite.

    Maybe I am misunderstanding which part you want in the cloud, but that sounds like litestream https://litestream.io/

  4. starbasedb

    HTTP SQLite scale-to-zero database on the edge built on Cloudflare Durable Objects.

    The folks over at StarbaseDB (https://starbasedb.com/) are working on building tools for shareded SQLite.

    From the companies I've talked to, most developers using this architecture are building quick scripts to do this in-house. Both Turso and Durable Objects SQLite already a surprising amount of usage that people don't talk about much publicly yet, so I suspect some of this tooling will start to be published in the next year.

  5. ClickBench

    ClickBench: a Benchmark For Analytical Databases

  6. Internet-Places-Database

    Database of Internet places. Mostly domains

    Might be a little bit off topic. I created a web page, with data. I didn't want to host VPS, be charged for traffic. I do not want also to play with cloudflare and self-hosting.

    My solution? The app is a webpage, which reads SQLite. If user wants to use app, the database is downloaded, unpacked, and used on users device.

    Links:

    - https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database - search.html provides a preview for my database file (but code supports also reading zip file).

    - https://rumca-js.github.io/search?file=top&page=1&search=neo... - uses JSON files stored in a zip file. Will be replaced soon with zip + sqlite file

    - https://rumca-js.github.io/search?file=music&view_display_ty... - example showing my fav music. As above uses JSON files, in a zip file

  7. mvsqlite

    Distributed, MVCC SQLite that runs on FoundationDB.

    SQLite has the ability to do exactly this, minus the versioning: https://sqlite.org/cloudsqlite/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki

    Implementing snapshot backups on top of that would be as simple as a VACUUM and S3 PUT

    For point-in-time restores, mvsqlite is a cool solution: https://github.com/losfair/mvsqlite

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