Software engineering, distributed systems, databases, and the teams that build them
Software engineering, distributed systems, databases, and the teams that build them
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, utilizing SQLite as its storage engine. Version 7.16.0 has been released and now includes support for restoring your rqlite system automatically from AWS S3. With this in place you…
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, utilizing SQLite as its storage engine. Version 7.15.0 has been released and now includes support for automated backups to Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3. This enhancement offers increased data…
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. 7.14.2 adds various bug fixes and improvements. Most of the rqlite source code was also run through GPT-4, and many of its…
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. I’ve been developing rqlite since 2014 and its design and implementation has evolved substantially during that time — and the design docs…
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. 7.14.0 has been released and adds comprehensive support for Mutual TLS. What makes this release of rqlite different is that much of…
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. 7.13.0 improves the rqlite command-line tool, storing and reloading command history across sessions. You can download the release from GitHub.
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. Recently I introduced a high-performance write-path into rqlite and, to my great surprise, it exposed a bug in SQLite.
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. 7.12.0 provides more convenient options for removing nodes from clusters, as well as more graceful shutdown options. You can download the release…
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. 7.11.0 adds support for automatically reaping nodes, and a new convenient query response format. You can download the release from GitHub.
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. Recently I helped Replicated replace their use of PostgreSQL with rqlite. This brought much easier operation and high-availability to their Application Manager.
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. Replicated, a company which helps software vendors ship software to end users, recently migrated from PostgreSQL to rqlite. Along the way their…
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. 7.8.0 provides more convenient options for retrieving a backup of the underlying SQLite database. The guide for running rqlite on Kubernetes has…
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. 7.7.0 is the first release to add support for non-deterministic functions, specifically RANDOM. It accomplishes this via statement-rewriting. Many thanks to Ben…
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. 7.6.0 improves access-control options, and also has official ARM and ARM64 builds for the first time.
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. 7.5.1 supports more network-related configuration options. You can download the release from GitHub.
rqlite is an open-source, lightweight, distributed relational database, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. Written in Go, It’s trivial to deploy, and easy to use. Release 7.5.0 adds Queued Writes. This is the first time rqlite allows users to…
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. Nienke Eijsvogel, Ruben van Baarle and Daan de Graaf recently ran Jepsen-style testing of rqlite. Their tests showed that rqlite maintains linearizability…
I recently had the opportunity to talk distributed systems and rqlite at the Hacker Nights NYC Meetup. It was great chance to speak with some folks, and discuss rqlite, its design, and how it operates. The presentation is available, as…
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. 7.3.2 upgrades rqlite to use SQLite 3.38.0. You can download the release from GitHub.
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine and Raft for distributed consensus. Release 7.0 is out now and introduces the first wave of new Node Discovery and Automatic Clustering …
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. 6.9.0 adds support for SQLite Named Parameters. You can download the release from GitHub.
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. 6.8.2 adds control over startup initialization. You can download the release from GitHub.
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. There have been a series of releases recently, which make deployment on Linux even easier, and significantly decrease the Docker footprint.
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. 6.6.2 increases maximum intra-cluster communication message size. You can download the release from GitHub.
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. 6.6.1 improves handing of some error cases. You can download the release from GitHub.