Software engineering, distributed systems, databases, and the teams that build them
Software engineering, distributed systems, databases, and the teams that build them
I’ve moved continuous testing of rqlite to CircleCI 2.0. The initial work I did with hraftd was helpful, though rqlite was definitely more involved. Testing is significantly quicker with the new, container-based, version of CircleCI, which should help noticeably with…
Hashicorp recently released version 1.0 of their Raft consensus package. The Hashicorp implementation, along with SQLite, forms the core of rqlite. rqlite has now been ported to release 1.0 and will be a key change in the upcoming release of…
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source distributed relational database, with SQLite as its storage engine. v4.3.0 is now out and includes some new security functionality. You can download the release from GitHub.
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source distributed relational database, with SQLite as its storage engine. v4.2.2 is now out. This release include some minor bug fixes. You can download the release from GitHub.
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source distributed relational database, with SQLite as its storage engine. v4.2.1 is now out. This release include some minor fixes to the CLI, as well as a simple benchmarking tool. You can download the release from…
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source distributed relational database, with SQLite as its storage engine. v4.2.0 is now out. This release moves the build to Go 1.9. You can download the release from GitHub.
rqlite is a lightweight, distributed database with SQLite as its storage engine. Thanks to some work by aka turbo, Windows binaries are now available for download from AppVeyor. Each change now triggers a new build. You can download the latest…
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source distributed relational database, with SQLite as its storage engine. v4.1.0 is now out. This release includes some minor enhancements and bug fixes. You can download the release from GitHub.
I’ve started a new Java client for rqlite, the lightweight distributed relational database, build on SQLite. I’m using Eclipse as my IDE and it’s working well so far. You can check out the source on Github here.
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source distributed relational database, with SQLite as its storage engine. v4.0.1 is now out. This release includes some minor bug fixes. You can download the release from GitHub.
Thanks to Justin Morant there is now a new JavaScript client library for rqlite, the lightweight, distributed, relational database. This library allows you to build both in-browser and node.js applications, that access rqlite. You can check it out on GitHub.
A Google Group for rqlite discussions has been created. This should be a faster way to learn more about the uses, design, and implementation of rqlite. Check it out here.
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source distributed relational database, with SQLite as its storage engine. It’s been over a year since the last major release and v4.0.0 is now available.
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source distributed relational database, with SQLite as its storage engine. v3.14.0 is now out. This release is the first built with Go 1.8. You can download the release from GitHub.
I finally got around to creating the first Docker image for rqlite, the lightweight distributed, relational database built on SQLite. It was pretty straightforward, once I took a look at how Vault and InfluxDB create their respective images. The image…
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source distributed relational database, with SQLite as its storage engine. v3.13.0 is now out. This release includes minor enhancements and a couple of bug fixes. You can download the release from GitHub.
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source distributed relational database, with SQLite as its storage engine. v3.12.1 has been released. This release includes integration with a new Discovery Service, allowing nodes to automatically connect and form a cluster. This can be very…
In this post I describe how I built a serverless cluster discovery service for rqlite, the distributed relational database built on SQLite. Built using the AWS API Gateway service, AWS Lambda, and DynamoDB, it means rqlite nodes no longer need…
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source distributed relational database, with SQLite as its storage engine. v3.10.0 has been released. This release includes some minor configuration control and logging enhancements. You can download the release from GitHub.
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source distributed relational database, with SQLite as its storage engine. v3.9.2 is now out. This release includes a couple of significant bug fixes. You can download the release from GitHub.
I’ve started experimenting with one of the newest packaging systems — Canonical’s Snap format. I learned about Snap from Mark Shuttleworth when he let me know that he had created a rqlite Snap. It seems pretty clean and straightforward so far — I’ve…
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source distributed relational database, with SQLite as its storage engine. v3.8.0 is now out. This release includes some minor enhancements and bug fixes. You can download the release from GitHub.
rqlite is a lightweight distributed relational database, with SQLite as its storage engine. With release v3.7.0 you can load SQLite dump files directly into rqlite. This makes restoring from a backup, or migrating an existing SQLite database to rqlite much…
rqlite is an open-source distributed relational database, with SQLite as its storage engine. v3.6.0 is out. With this release a new node can now join an existing cluster though any node of that cluster, not just through the leader node.…
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source distributed relational database, with SQLite as its storage engine. Thanks to the power of the Go tool chain, it is compatible with Microsoft Windows without any extra effort. To ensure that it remains compatible with…