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, fault-tolerant relational database built on SQLite and Raft. Version 10 is out now. rqlite uses SQLite as its storage engine and has a particular relationship with the SQLite Write-Ahead Log (WAL). SQLite, left to itself, manages its…
rqlite is a lightweight, user-friendly, open-source, distributed relational database. It’s written in Go, employs Raft for distributed consensus, and uses SQLite as its storage engine. rqlite v10.0 has been released and introduces improved cluster and management features, including a new…
rqlite is a lightweight, user-friendly, distributed relational database. It’s written in Go, employs Raft for distributed consensus, and uses SQLite as its storage engine. The newly released rqlite 9.2 introduces a major improvement to startup performance – nodes can now resume from where they…
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source distributed relational database implemented in Go, and which uses SQLite as its storage engine. It has reached a new milestone in the open-source community by surpassing 17,000 stars on GitHub. Thanks to everyone for the ongoing support.
rqlite is a lightweight, user-friendly, open-source, distributed relational database. It’s written in Go, employs Raft for distributed consensus, and uses SQLite as its storage engine. rqlite 9.0 introduces Change Data Capture (CDC), enabling you to stream the changes occurring to the…
rqlite is a lightweight, user-friendly, open-source, distributed relational database. It’s written in Go and uses SQLite as its storage engine. When it comes to distributed systems the CAP theorem is an essential concept. It states that it’s impossible for a distributed database to simultaneously provide…
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…
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…
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…
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…
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source distributed relational database implemented in Go, and which uses SQLite as its storage engine. Stephen Blum, CTO at PubNub has produced an informative video on rqlite. In it Stephen gives an overview of deploying rqlite,…
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source distributed relational database implemented in Go, and which uses SQLite as its storage engine. Release v8.29.0 bakes more SQLite extensions into the Docker image, as well as improving extension management generally.
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, utilizing SQLite as its storage engine. Release v8.24.9 is the first release that comes with multi-platform Docker support. You can now pull a Docker image for 386, ARM, and…
My GopherCon 2023 talk, Build Your Own Distributed System Using Go, has been published to YouTube. It was a great conference, and I appreciated the opportunity to share some lessons on designing, developing, and operating modern distributed systems in general,…
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, utilizing SQLite as its storage engine. Release v8.24.0 adds the ability to automatically upload point-in-time backups to AWS S3 and S3-compatible storage systems.
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, utilizing SQLite as its storage engine. rqlite has been updated to versions 8.23.1 through 8.23.3, bringing a series of targeted improvements to refine its internal operations and enhance overall…
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, utilizing SQLite as its storage engine. Release v8.23.0 supports the SQLite RETURNING keyword, as well adding some other enhancements.
rqlite, the lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go and built on SQLite, has seen a series of significant updates enhancing its robustness, efficiency, and feature set. With releases from 8.20.0 to 8.22.2, rqlite continues to evolve, driven by…
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, utilizing SQLite as its storage engine. Release v8.19.0 adds the ability to configure a timeout for your SQL queries. Many thanks to Mauri de Souza Meneguzzo for this new…
rqlite is a lightweight, easy-to-use, open-source, distributed relational database. It’s written in Go and uses SQLite as its storage engine. rqlite has recently seen two significant upgrades with the release of versions 8.17.0 and 8.18.0. These releases introduce new features…
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, utilizing SQLite as its storage engine. Release v8.15.0 fixes bugs related to auto-restore, improves backup performance, and adds some other minor enhancements.
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, utilizing SQLite as its storage engine. 8.14.0 improves Raft snapshotting control, as well as enables Automatic Clustering support for read-only nodes.
I recently had the opportunity to discuss rqlite, open-source, and distributed systems with Eric Anderson of Scale. It was great to be part of Eric’s series of podcasts on open-source software, modern software development, and where the industry is going.…
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, utilizing SQLite as its storage engine. Release v8.10.0 introduces a new, high-performance, initialize-from-SQLite option. Known as Boot loading, it allows an rqlite node to be loaded with large (multi-GB)…
rqlite is a lightweight, easy-to-use, open-source, distributed relational database. It’s written in Go and uses SQLite as its storage engine. Release 8.0 is out now and brings substantial advancements to its handling of large data sets. It also adds many…