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24 alternatives to rqlite – the lightweight, distributed relational database

The lightweight, user-friendly, fault-tolerant database built on SQLite. - rqlite

rqlite is a lightweight, distributed relational database built for developers. It combines SQLite with a distributed architecture, allowing data to be replicated across multiple nodes for fault tolerance and high… 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 lightweight, distributed relational database launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    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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    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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    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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    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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    The lightweight, distributed relational database built on SQLite. - otoolep/rqlite

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    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

    2022 · philipotoole.com · its alternatives →

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    The lightweight, distributed relational database built on SQLite. - otoolep/rqlite

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    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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    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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    I wrote a relational database management system (RDBMS) (sqlite clone) from scratch in pure Python.

    2023 · 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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    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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    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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    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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    SimpleSQLite is a Python library to simplify SQLite database operations: table creation, data insertion and get data as other data formats. Simple ORM functionality for SQLite. - thombashi/SimpleSQLite

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    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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    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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    Portable, Serverless & Lightweight SQLite-based Graph Database in Arturo - drkameleon/grafito

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    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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    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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    This is a simple graph database in SQLite, inspired by "SQLite as a document database" - dpapathanasiou/simple-graph

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The content delivery platform that truly hops.

    Feb 2026 · bunny.net · its alternatives →

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    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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