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24 alternatives to Reduce SQLite database size by up to 80% with transparent compression
Transparent dictionary-based row-level compression for SQLite - phiresky/sqlite-zstd
This tool compresses SQLite databases transparently, reducing file size by up to 80% without requiring application changes. It is designed for developers who need to minimize storage requirements for SQLite-based… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Reduce SQLite database size by up to 80% with transparent compression launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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I recently released v3 of Base, my SQLite editor for macOS. The goal of this app is to provide a comfortable native GUI for SQLite, without it turning into a massive IDE-style app. The coolest features are - That it can handle full altering of tables, which is quite finicky to do manually with SQLite. - It has a more detailed display of column constraints than most editors. Each constraint is shown as an icon if active, with full details available on clicking the icon. This update also adds support for attaching databases, which is a bit fiddly with macOS sandboxing. I'd love to hear any…
2025 · menial.co.uk · its alternatives →
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CompressImage.io▲261Reduce image size up to 90% in seconds, free & works offline
2022 · compressimage.io · its alternatives →
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I built a SQLite VFS in Rust that serves cold queries directly from S3 with sub-second performance, and often much faster. It’s called turbolite. It is experimental, buggy, and may corrupt data. I would not trust it with anything important yet. I wanted to explore whether object storage has gotten fast enough to support embedded databases over cloud storage. Filesystems reward tiny random reads and in-place mutation. S3 rewards fewer requests, bigger transfers, immutable objects, and aggressively parallel operations where bandwidth is often the real constraint. This was explicitly inspired…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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PMB▲211PMB gives Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and Zed a real memory. Decisions, lessons and facts in one SQLite file on your disk. Offline, no API keys, no cloud.
Jun 2026 · pmbai.dev · its alternatives →
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pglite-fusion is a PostgreSQL extension that allows you to embed SQLite databases into your PostgreSQL tables by enabling the creation of columns with the `SQLITE` type. This means every row in the table can have an embedded SQLite database. In addition to the PostgreSQL `SQLITE` type, pglite-fusion provides the `query_sqlite`` function for querying SQLite databases and the `execute_sqlite` function for updating them. Additional functions are listed in the project’s README. The pglite-fusion extension is written in Rust using the pgrx framework [1]. ---- Implementation Details The PostgreSQL…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I just shipped the first public version of datasette, a new tool for creating and publishing JSON APIs for SQLite databases. You can try out out right now at fivethirtyeight.datasettes.com, …
2017 · simonwillison.net · its alternatives →
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TinyFast▲319I am a developer. I have been building stuff for the last 13 years. One common challenge in all my projects is compressing assets to make them as small as possible. I used to end up using online compressors, but this has a lot of privacy concerns. So, I finally set down for couple of weeks and built this simple app. I can just drag and drop assets in it and it shrinks them. It currently supports around 25 file types. I built a lot of iOS apps but this is the first time building a macOS app, so any feedback is welcome.
2025 · tinyfast.app · its alternatives →
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Visual tool to explore SQLite databases page-by-page, the way they're stored on disk and the way SQLite sees them. - QuadrupleA/sqlite-page-explorer
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Compress Image▲175Hi HN, CompressImageX.com is a straightforward image compressor that helps reduce file sizes without killing quality. •Adjustable quality settings (lossy/lossless) •Batch compression supported •Fast, works offline (thanks to WebAssembly) •No watermarks, no tracking Useful for devs, bloggers, or anyone who wants lighter images. Let me know what you think!
2024 · compressimage.app · its alternatives →
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2020 · dropbase.io · its alternatives →
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The Universal Cross-Model Episodic Memory Standard. Local-first, project-scoped SQLite memory engine for Google Antigravity, Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf. Zero cloud lock-in. - timgordontg/engrim
Sep 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Versioning filesystem for Sqlite. Contribute to sudeep9/mojo development by creating an account on GitHub.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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We have been using graph DBs more and more at work. I found them painful to work with locally and decided to try and build something better.
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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WarcDB: Web crawl data as SQLite databases. Contribute to Florents-Tselai/WarcDB development by creating an account on GitHub.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Magically make your Redis data smaller with Zstandard compression. - chadnickbok/redis-zstd-module
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! I'm building mvsqlite, a distributed variant of SQLite with MVCC transactions, that runs on FoundationDB. It is a drop-in replacement that just needs an `LD_PRELOAD` for existing applications using SQLite. I made this because Blueboat (https://github.com/losfair/blueboat) needs a native SQL interface to persistent data. Apparently, just providing a transactional key-value store isn’t enough - it is more easy and efficient to build complex business logic on an SQL database, and it seems necessary to bring a self-hostable distributed SQL DB onto the platform.…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Query SQLite files in S3 using s3fs. Contribute to litements/s3sqlite development by creating an account on GitHub.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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SQLite encryption at-rest is a hot requested feature of both the “default” CGo driver [1] and the transpiled alternative driver [2]. So, this is a feature I wanted to bring to my own Wasm based Go driver/bindings [3]. Open-source SQLite encryption extensions have had a troubled last few years. For whatever reason, in 2020 the (undocumented) feature that made it easy to offer page-level encryption was removed [4]. Some solutions are stuck with SQLite 3.31.1, but Ulrich Telle stepped up with a VFS approach [5]. Still, their solution seemed harder than something I'd want to maintain, as it…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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a fast zero-copy sqlite implementation only for dumping the contents of a sqlite3 file
Oct 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Manipulate your SQLite database like a giant Javascript object. Built with o1.
2024 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →
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A parser for SQLite create table sql statements. Contribute to marcobambini/sqlite-createtable-parser development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Smaller files, powerful designs, effortless impact
2023 · compressify.io · its alternatives →
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