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24 alternatives to rqlite, the distributed database built on SQLite – now with ARM support

rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. 7.6.0 improves access-control options, and also has official ARM and ARM64 builds for the first time. Cross compiling for ARM was relatively straightforward. Once I installed

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. rqlite, the distributed database built on SQLite – now with ARM support launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Rqlite v4.0 – With node-to-node encryption▲101
The lightweight, fault-tolerant database built on SQLite. Designed to keep your data highly available with minimal effort. - Release v4.0.0 · rqlite/rqlite
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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rqlite v2.2.2, replicating SQLite via Raft consensus▲66
The lightweight, fault-tolerant database built on SQLite. Designed to keep your data highly available with minimal effort. - rqlite/rqlite
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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rqlite – the lightweight, distributed relational database▲11
The lightweight, user-friendly, fault-tolerant database built on SQLite. - rqlite
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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rqlite 7.15, the distributed DB built on SQLite, now with backups to S3▲13
The lightweight, fault-tolerant database built on SQLite. Designed to keep your data highly available with minimal effort. - Release v7.15.0 · rqlite/rqlite
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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rqlite v2, SQLite Replication via Hashicorp Raft▲11
The lightweight, distributed relational database built on SQLite. - otoolep/rqlite
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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rqlite v3.4.1 – replicating SQLite via Raft consensus▲8
The lightweight, fault-tolerant database built on SQLite. Designed to keep your data highly available with minimal effort. - Release v3.4.1 · rqlite/rqlite
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Sqinn-Go is a Golang library for accessing SQLite databases in pure Go▲113
Golang SQLite without cgo. Contribute to cvilsmeier/sqinn-go development by creating an account on GitHub.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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rqlite – replicating SQLite using Raft consensus▲6
The lightweight, distributed relational database built on SQLite. - otoolep/rqlite
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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rqlite, distributed SQLite, v7.2: autoclustering via DNS and DNS SRV▲5
The lightweight, fault-tolerant database built on SQLite. Designed to keep your data highly available with minimal effort. - Release v7.2.0 · rqlite/rqlite
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Turbolite – a SQLite VFS serving sub-250ms cold JOIN queries from S3▲185
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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Distributed SQLite on FoundationDB▲150
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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Rlite – A serverless Redis-compatible database▲27
self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional redis-compatible database engine. rlite is to Redis what SQLite is to SQL. - seppo0010/rlite
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Replicate App-Embedded DuckDBs into PostgreSQL with SyncLite OSS▲73
Hi HN, We have been building SyncLite, an open-source platform to simplify offline-first application development. If your application uses SQLite or DuckDB, SyncLite lets it continue using the local database as usual while synchronization happens in the background. For SQL-based applications, SyncLite records transactions into transactionally consistent .sqlog files using SQLite as an open replication format. A background consolidator replays those transactions, derives row-level CDC and schema changes, and applies them transactionally to destination databases like PostgreSQL. The same…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I wrote a RDBMS (SQLite clone) from scratch in pure Python▲371
I wrote a relational database management system (RDBMS) (sqlite clone) from scratch in pure Python.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Embed an SQLite database in your PostgreSQL table▲180
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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SQLite Online – 11 years of solo development, 11K daily users▲465
SQL OnLine - SQLite, DuckDB, PGLite, MariaDB / MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server. AI error analysis, User-friendly interface for Data Science. No registration for start, No DownLoad, No Install. | sql compiler, federated queries, temporal query federation, BI Analytics
2025 · sqliteonline.com · its alternatives →
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A Database Written in Golang▲277
Recently created a minimal persistent relational database in Go. Main focus was on implementing & understanding working the of database, storage management & transaction handling. Use of B+ Tree for storage engine(support for indexing), managing a Free List (for reusing nodes), Support for transactions, Concurrent Reads. Still have many things to add & fix like query processing being one of the main & fixing some bugs Repo link - https://github.com/Sahilb315/AtomixDB Would love to hear your thoughts
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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gRPSQLite – A SQLite VFS for remote databases via gRPC▲16
A SQLite VFS for remote databases via gRPC. Contribute to danthegoodman1/gRPSQLite development by creating an account on GitHub.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Compute Lite▲13
ComputeLite is a true serverless tool which leverages the capabilities of WASM (Web Assembly) and SQLite OPFS to ensure that all data and code remain securely in the browser, with no server dependencies or external storage. Right now it supports Python (powered by Pyodide) and SQL( powered by SQLITE) With ComputeLite: You can write and execute Python code seamlessly in your browser. Any data you upload remains secure and confined to your browser, ensuring privacy. Explore examples using popular packages like NumPy, Pandas, PuLP, right within the browser. ComputeLite is completely open…
2024 · computelite.com · its alternatives →
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Drop-in SQS replacement based on SQLite▲656
Hi! I wanted to share an open source API-compatible replacement for SQS. It's written in Go, distributes as a single binary, and uses SQLite for underlying storage. I wrote this because I wanted a queue with all the bells and whistles - searching, scheduling into the future, observability, and rate limiting - all the things that many modern task queue systems have. But I didn't want to rewrite my app, which was already using SQS. And I was frustrated that many of the best solutions out there (BullMQ, Oban, Sidekiq) were language-specific. So I made an SQS-compatible replacement. All you have…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Nebula – a distributed graph database written in C++▲178
A distributed, fast open-source graph database featuring horizontal scalability and high availability - GitHub - vesoft-inc/nebula: A distributed, fast open-source graph database featuring horizontal scalability and high availability
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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PGlite – in-browser WASM Postgres with pgvector and live sync▲509
Hey, Sam and the team from ElectricSQL here. PGlite is a WASM Postgres build packaged into a TypeScript/JavaScript client library, that enables you to run Postgres in the browser, Node.js and Bun, with no need to install any other dependencies. It's 3mb Gzipped, now has support for many Postgres extensions, including pgvector, and it has a reactive "live query" API. It's also fast, with CRUD style queries executing in under 0.3 ms, and larger, multi-row select queries occurring within a fraction of a single frame. PGlite started as an experimental project we shared on X, and the…
2024 · pglite.dev · its alternatives →
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PlanetScale Beta▲271
The last database you'll ever need. Go from idea to IPO.
2021 · planetscale.com · its alternatives →
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An experimental distributed SQL database from scratch in Go▲104
LBADD: An experimental, distributed SQL database. Contribute to tomarrell/lbadd development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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