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.…
TonboLite – Scale SQLite with S3, Minimize ETL launched on January 7, 2025 with 6 votes and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
What it does
TonboLite: Analysis-ready SQLite using Tonbo. Contribute to tonbo-io/tonbolite development by creating an account on GitHub.
TonboLite is a WASM compatible SQLite extension that allows users to create tables which supports analytical processing directly in SQLite. Its storage engine is powered by our open-source embedded key-value database, Tonbo . sqlite > .load target/release/libsqlite_tonbo sqlite > CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE temp.tonbo USING tonbo( create_sql = ' create table tonbo(id bigint primary key, name varchar, like int) ' , path = ' db_path/tonbo ' ) ; sqlite > insert into tonbo (id, name, like) values (0, ' tonbo ' , 100) ; sqlite > insert into tonbo (id, name, like) values (1, ' sqlite ' , 200) ; sqlite > select * from tonbo ; 0 | tonbo | 100 1 | sqlite | 200 sqlite > update tonbo set like = 123 where id…from github.com
In the maker’s words, at launch
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…
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