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, 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, open-source, distributed relational database built on SQLite and Raft. Versions 9.3.5 through 9.3.10 focus on internal correctness and operational robustness, particularly around Raft snapshotting, WAL handling, and testing. These releases also include improvements to logging, the…
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, 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, which uses SQLite as its storage engine and Raft for consensus. Ten years ago, I tagged the first release of rqlite—a project I started to explore distributed consensus, to learn Go, and…
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 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. It is built on the Raft consensus protocol and uses SQLite as its storage engine. Release v8.27.0 introduces the capability to load SQLite extensions at startup, significantly expanding the…
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go. It is built on the Raft consensus protocol and uses SQLite as its storage engine. Development of 9.0 has begun and aims to reduce disk usage by approximately 50%.…
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. 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 v8.16.0 comes with new support for backup and restore support for MinIO and other S3-compatible storage systems. Many thanks to Jason Tackaberry…
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.
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…
It was great to speak at GopherCon 2023, on the topic of building Distributed Systems using Go and Raft. You can download a copy of my presentation, along with speaker notes, here.
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 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…