Philip O'Toole
Philip O'Toole
rqlite
is a lightweight, open-source distributed relational database implemented in Go, and which uses SQLite as its storage engine.
I’ve decided to code a new, high-quality HTTP client library for rqlite. My hope is that this library will be useful on its own or as a foundation for higher-level libraries. Once written I may then have GPT generate versions in other languages from the Go source.
Developing Go applications often involves managing numerous command-line options, which can quickly become tedious to handle and document. Enter flagforge, a tool designed to automate the entire process.
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Artifact Hub
is a web-based application that enables finding, installing, and publishing Cloud Native packages and configurations. The official rqlite Helm charts have now been published there.
Many thanks to Jason Tackaberry for putting this together.
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, and built on SQLite and Raft. With its origins dating back to 2014, its design has always prioritized reliability, and quality. The robustness of rqlite is also a testament to its disciplined testing strategy: after more than 10 years of development and deployments, users have reported fewer than 10 instances of panics in production.
Testing a distributed system like rqlite is no small feat. It requires careful consideration of various layers: from individual components to the entire system in operation. Let’s explore how rqlite is tested, following its philosophy of maintaining quality without unnecessary complexity.
rqlite is a lightweight, user-friendly, open-source, distributed relational database. It’s written in Go and uses SQLite as its storage engine. rqlite has received several important updates in recent weeks. These updates, spanning versions 8.34.0 through 8.36.0, introduce new features and make significant improvements to the database’s implementation and usability.
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rqlite is a lightweight, user-friendly, open-source, distributed relational database. It’s written in Go and uses SQLite as its storage engine.
I’ve added a new Configuration Guide for rqlite, which has been regularly requested. rqlite has many options and although the defaults work for the vast majority of use cases, occasionally rqlite requires some operational tweaks.
rqlite is a lightweight, user-friendly, open-source, distributed relational database. It’s written in Go and uses SQLite as its storage engine.
Release 8.33.0 is out now and adds support for automatic rewriting of SQLite Date and Time functions. This removes another source of non-determinism from rqlite, allowing these functions to be used when working rqlite.
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database. It’s written in Go, built on the Raft consensus algorithm, and uses SQLite as its storage engine. With release 8.32, rqlite now supports fast, reliable, Linearizable reads—delivering strong consistency guarantees without the performance costs of the past.
Distributed systems present many challenges, but there is only one really hard problem: ensuring a consistent state across nodes, even in the face of network partitions, machine failures, or unexpected bugs. And a closely related requirement is ensuring up-to-date data reads — both requirements are the essential challenges that every distributed database must address.
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rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine.
Concurrency and synchronization are at the heart of any database — and distributed systems too. Today, I’d like to share the set of synchronization primitives and race-free data structures I’ve developed for rqlite, and explain how I use them to program key aspects of the database. They might even be useful to others confronted with similar requirements.
Continue reading “Concurrency Control in Go: Inside rqlite’s Custom Synchronization Primitives”
