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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 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.

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.

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 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.

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,…

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.…

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.