Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to TonboLite – Scale SQLite with S3, Minimize ETL
Hi! I am Tzu and the team from Tonbo here. TonboLite: https://github.com/tonbo-io/tonbolite is a SQLite extension based on Tonbo: https://github.com/tonbo-io/tonbo. It enables SQLite to create tables suitable for analytical processing on target platforms like WebAssembly in browser and efficiently write data. The data in the tables is organized as tiered Apache Parquet format files, stored on demand either on local disks (using OPFS as native I/O) or object storage services (such as S3). You can use it by creating virtual tables in regular SQLite.…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Tonbo is an embedded database for serverless and edge runtimes. - tonbo-io/tonbo
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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SQLite extension + bindings for Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN semantics with durable queues, streams, pub/sub, and scheduler - russellromney/honker
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Transparent dictionary-based row-level compression for SQLite - phiresky/sqlite-zstd
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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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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Hello HN! I built stanchion to scratch my own itch. I have personal applications running on SQLite where I want to store log and metric data (basically forever) but don't want to add complexity by bringing in a new database or whole separate server. Some of these applications are running on a Raspberry Pi, where storage and compute are limited, but I still want data warehouse like capabilities. I envision stanchion being used in similar scenarios: on phones and resource-limited devices in applications that are already using SQLite. I know that there are alternatives like DuckDB (which is…
2024 · 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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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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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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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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A SQL database implemented purely in TypeScript type annotations. - codemix/ts-sql
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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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/_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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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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2020 · octoproject.github.io · its alternatives →
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A Go SQL query builder and struct mapper. Contribute to samonzeweb/godb development by creating an account on GitHub.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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OctoSQL is a query tool that allows you to join, analyse and transform data from multiple databases and file formats using SQL. - cube2222/octosql
2019 · 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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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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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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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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Create custom SQLite functions in JavaScript. Extend your database with scalars, aggregates, window functions, and collations directly in JavaScript. - sqliteai/sqlite-js
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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An extremely simple and explicit ORM for TypeScript - Seb-C/kiss-orm
2020 · 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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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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Portable, Serverless & Lightweight SQLite-based Graph Database in Arturo - drkameleon/grafito
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
Also compare
- Tonbo – an embedded database for serverless and edge runtimes alternatives
- Honker – Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN Semantics for SQLite alternatives
- Reduce SQLite database size by up to 80% with transparent compression alternatives
- Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS alternatives
- Stanchion – Column-oriented tables in SQLite alternatives
- Turbolite – a SQLite VFS serving sub-250ms cold JOIN queries from S3 alternatives
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