rqlite 6.8.2 released
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.
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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rqlite: static linking and smaller Docker images
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 6.6.2 released
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 6.6.1 released
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.
rqlite 6.6.0 released
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. 6.6.0 adds supports for recovering clusters that have permanently lost quorum. You can download the release from GitHub.
rqlite 6.5.0 released
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. 6.5.0 adds new management features, and improved diagnostics. You can download the release from GitHub.
rqlite 6.4.3 released
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. 6.4.3 includes important bug fixes related to large databases, and improved status and diagnostics. You can download the release from GitHub.
rqlite 6.1.0 released
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, with SQLite as its storage engine. 6.1.0 enables new SQLite options including JSON1 support and the DBSTAT table. It also supports proper concurrent database reads for in-memory databases, and…
rqlite 6.0: the evolution of a distributed database design
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. v6.0.0 is out now and makes clustering more robust. It also lays the foundation for more important features.
rqlite 5.12.0 released
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.
rqlite 5.11.1 released
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, with SQLite as its storage engine. v5.11.1 is now out and fixes a significant bug in the Raft-related compression code. You can download the release from GitHub.
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…
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,…
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.
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.
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.
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.…
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.
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.
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
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, with SQLite as its storage engine. v5.0.0 is now out, and is the first major upgrade in over 2 years.
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.
rqlite 4.6.0 released
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source distributed relational database, with SQLite as its storage engine. v4.6.0 is now out has many new database management features. You can download the release from GitHub.
Enabling CircleCI testing for gorqlite
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source distributed relational database, with SQLite as its storage engine. gorqlite is a Go client library, originally written by raindog308. While the client library doesn’t adhere to the Go database standard, it is still starting to get some…