rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, with SQLite as its storage engine. v5.12.0 is now out and upgrades SQLite to 3.35.4.
You can download the release from GitHub.
It was April 9th 2016, and I tagged my first official release of rqlite — two years after I actually started coding it. Since then there has been 58 releases, 277 closed issues, 416 closed pull requests, 32,785 insertions, 1954 deletions, and 100 files have changed.
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Thanks to Zac Medico, there is a new PyPI Project and package for rqlite. You can find it on the PyPI website.
Version 2.1 is now available.
My most recent post on Reddit got a reader’s attention, and they remarked that rqlite 5.10.0 memory usage grew during the load test, but no such increase in memory usage was seen during the same testing of 5.6.0. Sure enough, there was a memory leak in 5.10.0.
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, with SQLite as its storage engine. 5.10.0 is now out, capping a series of releases that brings significant improvements in disk usage and startup times.
Continue reading rqlite 5.10.0 released: comparing its disk usage to 5.6.0
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, with SQLite as its storage engine. v5.8.0 is now out, fixes some minor bugs, and adds support for HTTP/2 over TLS. It also stores a compressed copy of the SQLite database in the Raft snapshot, saving disk space.
You can download the release from GitHub.
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, with SQLite as its storage engine. v5.7.0 is now out, and introduces a major implementation change — replacing JSON encoding with Protocol Buffers for the Raft Log Entries.
Continue reading Moving to Protocol Buffers with rqlite 5.7.0
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rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, with SQLite as its storage engine. v5.5.0 is now out, and adds support for Parameterized SQL statements.