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24 alternatives to SQLite-s3vfs – Read and write SQLite databases on S3

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. SQLite-s3vfs – Read and write SQLite databases on S3 launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Query SQLite files stored in S3▲160

   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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   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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   VectorVFS, your filesystem as a vector database▲279

   2025 · vectorvfs.readthedocs.io · 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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   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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   Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS▲693

   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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   sqlite-memory-vfs - Open a SQLite db in Python without hitting disk▲17

   Python writable in-memory virtual filesystem for SQLite - michalc/sqlite-memory-vfs

   2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   ZeroFS – A log-structured filesystem for S3▲128

   ZeroFS serves S3-compatible buckets as POSIX filesystems over NFS and 9P, or as raw block devices over NBD. Data is compressed and encrypted before upload.

   Jul 2026 · zerofs.net · its alternatives →

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   Doculite – Use SQLite as a Document Database▲160

   Hi! As I was working on a side project, I noticed I wanted to use SQLite like a Document Database on the server. So I built Doculite. DocuLite lets you use SQLite like Firebase Firestore. It's written in Typescript and an adapter on top of sqlite3 and sqlite. Reasons: 1) Using an SQL Database meant having less flexibility and iterating slower. 2) Alternative, proven Document Databases only offered client/server support. 3) No network. Having SQLite server-side next to the application is extremely fast. 4) Replicating Firestore's API makes it easy to use. 5) Listeners and real-time…

   2023 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →

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    SQLite-S3-query – Python function to query a SQLite database on S3▲38

    Python functions to query SQLite files stored on S3 - michalc/sqlite-s3-query

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    SNKV – SQLite's B-tree as a key-value store (C/C++ and Python bindings)▲36

    SQLite has six layers: SQL parser → query planner → VDBE → B-tree → pager → OS. (https://sqlite.org/arch.html) For key-value workloads you only need the bottom three. SNKV cuts the top three layers and talks directly to SQLite's B-tree engine. No SQL strings. No query planner. No VM. Just put/get/delete on the same storage core that powers SQLite. Python: pip install snkv from snkv import KVStore with KVStore("mydb.db") as db: db["hello"] = "world" print(db["hello"]) # b"world" C/C++ (single-header, drop-in): #define SNKV_IMPLEMENTATION #include "snkv.h" KVStore…

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Google Drive to SQLite▲305

    Here's the repo: https://github.com/simonw/google-drive-to-sqlite The README is using a trick I'm increasingly leaning on: parts of that document - the --help output and the example database schema - are automatically generated using Cog: https://nedbatchelder.com/code/cog and https://til.simonwillison.net/python/cog-to-update-help-in-r...

    2022 · simonwillison.net · its alternatives →

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    CallFS – S3-style object store in one Go binary (MIT)▲66

    We started CallFS after yet another late-night “why did the uploads vanish?” incident. Our small team had stitched together rsync, a fragile NFS mount, and an S3 bucket—none of it observable, all of it waiting to bite us. So we wrote a single-process file service in Go that: • Speaks the S3 API (so existing tooling works). • Stores hot data on local disks for speed; cold data can sit in any S3-compatible bucket. • Exposes Prometheus metrics and JSON logs by default, because “what happened?” shouldn’t be guesswork. • Ships as a ~25 MB static binary—no external deps, MIT license. Today it’s…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    ZeroFS, the Filesystem That Makes S3 Your Primary Storage▲64

    ZeroFS: A log-structured filesystem for S3. ZeroFS serves S3-compatible buckets as POSIX filesystems over NFS and 9P, or as raw block devices over NBD. - GitHub - Barre/ZeroFS: ZeroFS: A log-structured filesystem for S3. ZeroFS serves S3-compatible buckets as POSIX filesystems over NFS and 9P, or as

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    mbtiles-s3-server – serve vector map tiles directly from mbtiles on S3▲72

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    LatticeDB – Like SQLite but for graph databases▲190

    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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    Datasette Publish – Turn CSVs into a SQLite-Backed JSON API▲101

    2018 · publish.datasettes.com · its alternatives →

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    Infreqdb – S3 backed key/value database for infrequent read access▲39

    S3 backed key/value database for infrequent read access - turbobytes/infreqdb

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    SQLite query inside a Bash function▲134

    Part of the workflow for building my website is the generation of a table in tab-separated column format (.tsv). The source data is found in four other .tsv files. I use an SQLite query to perform a 4-way join and write out the new table. For convenience, I wrote a script that encapsulates the query inside a Bash function. The example below illustrates this technique. repertoire() { pushd $CMM_SOURCES&#x2F;_data sqlite3 <<EOS .headers on .mode tabs .import category.tsv category .import composition.tsv composition .import concert.tsv concert .import program.tsv program .once repertoire.tsv…

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    TinyStorage▲178

    A Modern GUI For S3

    2025 · tinybrief.app · 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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    Roast my SQLite encryption at-rest▲99

    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&#x2F;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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    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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    3Cols▲66

    Cloud snippet manager for personal and collaborative code

    2020 · 3cols.com · its alternatives →

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