On the way to rqlite 8.0
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. Development for the 8.0 release has started, and should be an important release.
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
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Speaking at GopherCon 2023
This September I’ll be speaking at GopherCon 2023. The conference takes place in San Diego, and I’ll be giving a talk on Building Distributed Systems in Go using the Raft consensus protocol. Much of my presentation will be based on…
rqlite upgraded to SQLite 3.42.0
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. 7.20.0 upgrades SQLite from 3.39.0 to 3.42.0, bringing in a bunch of new SQLite features and bug fixes. You can download the…
rqlite now supports PowerPC, MIPS, and RISC
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, utilizing SQLite as its storage engine. rqlite v7.19.0 is out now, and there have been quite a few auto-clustering improvements a bug fixes added. In addition, through the magic…
Adding automatic S3 backups to rqlite
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…
What did GPT-4 find wrong with the rqlite source code?
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. As part of the 7.14.2 release, I ran most of the source code through GPT-4. Let’s take a look at some of…
rqlite 7.14.2 released
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…
9 years of open-source database development
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…
Creating rqlite 7.14.0 with GitHub Copilot
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 reaches 13,000 stars on GitHub
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. It passed another milestone this month in the open-source world, by passing 13,000 stars on GitHub.
rqlite 7.13.0 released
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.
How I found a bug in SQLite
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 7.12.0 released
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 7.11.0 released
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 7.10.0 released
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 7.8.0 released
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 7.7.0 released
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 7.6.0 released – now with ARM builds
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 7.5.1 released
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 7.5.0: Trading durability for write performance
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 reaches 10,000 stars on GitHub
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. It passed a milestone this month, in the open-source world, by gaining 10,000 stars on GitHub.
Talking Distributed Systems at Hacker Nights
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 7.3.2 released
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 7.0: Designing Node Discovery and Automatic Clustering
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 6.9.0 released
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.