rqlite
is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, with SQLite as its storage engine. v5.12.0 is now out and upgrades SQLite to 3.35.4.
You can download the release from GitHub.
Philip O'Toole
Software engineering, distributed systems, databases, and the teams that build them
Philip O'Toole
Software engineering, distributed systems, databases, and the teams that build them
rqlite 5.11.1 released
7 years of open-source database development: lessons learned
It was April 9th 2016, and I tagged my first official release of rqlite — two years after I actually started coding it. Since then there has been 58 releases, 277 closed issues, 416 closed pull requests, 32,785 insertions, 1954 deletions, and 100 files have changed.
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New Python package for rqlite
Thanks to Zac Medico, there is a new PyPI Project and package for rqlite. You can find it on the PyPI website.
Version 2.1 is now available.
Plugging a memory leak in rqlite
My most recent post on Reddit got a reader’s attention, and they remarked that rqlite 5.10.0 memory usage grew during the load test, but no such increase in memory usage was seen during the same testing of 5.6.0. Sure enough, there was a memory leak in 5.10.0.
rqlite 5.10.0 released: comparing its disk usage to 5.6.0
rqlite
is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, with SQLite as its storage engine. 5.10.0 is now out, capping a series of releases that brings significant improvements in disk usage and startup times.
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rqlite 5.8.0 released
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, with SQLite as its storage engine. v5.8.0 is now out, fixes some minor bugs, and adds support for HTTP/2 over TLS. It also stores a compressed copy of the SQLite database in the Raft snapshot, saving disk space.
You can download the release from GitHub.
Moving to Protocol Buffers with rqlite 5.7.0
rqlite
is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, with SQLite as its storage engine. v5.7.0 is now out, and introduces a major implementation change — replacing JSON encoding with Protocol Buffers for the Raft Log Entries.
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Where is technical innovation actually happening?
There is a popular image out there, among the general public, that small startups — particularly small software startups — are a hotbed of technical innovation, constantly creating new technology. But is it true?
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Parameterized SQL with rqlite 5.5.0
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, with SQLite as its storage engine. v5.5.0 is now out, and adds support for Parameterized SQL statements.
rqlite 5.4.2 released
Logs and Time Series are not the same
If you work in the logging, monitoring — or even Observability — space long enough, you eventually end up on team that tries to build a system that handles both logs and time series in a high-performant and cost-efficient manner.
Well, it’s a lot harder than it sounds — because logs and time-series are not the same.
rqlite 5.4.0 released
From Rackspace to GCP
Talking Audit Logging on Google Cloud Platform
I recently took part in the GCP Podcast, along with my colleague Oscar Guerrero. On the podcast we spoke about Audit Logging, which is a critical security feature of GCP.
Be sure to check out the podcast episode.
rqlite 5.3.0 released
rqlite 5.2.0 released
rqlite 5.1.1 released
rqlite on InfoWorld
rqlite got a mention in an InfoWorld article. Titled 9 offbeat databases worth a look, I’m glad to see the author got the details right.
Be sure to check out the article.
RSA Conference 2020
I attended the RSA Conference 2020 last month. I wanted to understand the security market better, due to my work at Google.
New knex.js library for rqlite
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, with SQLite as its storage engine. Thanks to Katja Lutz there is a new knex.js library available.
Check it out on GitHub.
Moving to HTTPS with Let’s Encrypt
After reading an interesting paper on Let’s Encrypt, I finally decided to switch this website over to HTTPS. I was really impressed with how smoothly the whole conversion went.
With the help of Certbot from the EFF, it took less than 5 minutes and ran without error. Very impressive!
Scaling read performance with rqlite 5.1.0
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, with SQLite as its storage engine. v5.1.0 is now out, and supports scaling reads via newly available read-only nodes.
rqlite 5.0.0 released
Logging and Monitoring systems are hard to code
This is a post following up on my Monitorama Baltimore 2019 talk.
Logging and Monitoring systems — Observability Systems, if you prefer — often seem to struggle to meet the needs of their users.
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