losfair/mvsqlite
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Distributed, MVCC SQLite that runs on FoundationDB.
26 mentions on Hacker News by 14 people: 5 stories, 21 comments · first 2022-07-27 · latest 2025-09-11
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I'm sad this project fizzled: https://github.com/losfair/mvsqlite It had the fascinating property of being a full multi-writer SQL engine when using Page Level Conflict Checking. Even more fascinating: every single client itself becomes a…
comment by phamilton · 2025-09-11 · in Rails on SQLite: new ways to cause outages -
An abandoned project I'd love to see resurrected is SQLite on fdb: https://github.com/losfair/mvsqlite
comment by pstuart · 2025-07-30 · in FoundationDB: From idea to Apple acquisition [video] -
My favorite FoundationDB layer is per-user SQLite databases: https://github.com/losfair/mvsqlite It's hard to tell if it's running in production, but the author works at Deno!
comment by conradev · 2025-05-08 · in Foundation DB Record Layer SQL API -
…that is quite intriguing, unfortunately the dev seems to have moved on from that effort: https://github.com/losfair/mvsqlite
comment by pstuart · 2025-05-08 · in Foundation DB Record Layer SQL API -
…would be as simple as a VACUUM and S3 PUT For point-in-time restores, mvsqlite is a cool solution: https://github.com/losfair/mvsqlite
comment by conradev · 2025-03-04 · in SQLite-on-the-server is misunderstood: Better at hyper-scale than micro-scale -
…https://foundationdb.org/ https://tigerbeetle.com/ Or if you really wanna keep the SQLite theme: https://github.com/losfair/mvsqlite Why promote the vaporware project when comparing with something that's been in development for 10 years?
comment by ncruces · 2025-01-14 · in How rqlite is tested -
…Any plans to pursue that further? For those that haven't seen it, SQLite on top of FoundationDB: https://github.com/losfair/mvsqlite
comment by pstuart · 2024-05-12 · in Deno KV internals: building a database for the modern web -
…running a foundationDB server with mvSQLite[1]? That shouldn’t require any changes to the code. [1] https://github.com/losfair/mvsqlite
comment by rprwhite · 2023-09-28 · in Deno Queues -
…the box is very very limited. Ideally someone could implement the firestore or dynamodb api on top. https://github.com/losfair/mvsqlite Is basically distributed SQLite backed by FDB. I’ve been scared to use it since I don’t know rust and…
comment by endisneigh · 2023-07-03 · in FoundationDB: A Distributed Key-Value Store -
…to S3, they have that too: https://github.com/libsql/bottomless - Uh, sqld can integrated with this https://github.com/losfair/mvsqlite , so now your SQLite is backed by FoundationDB!? -- - Meanwhile Litestream exists…
comment by maxmcd · 2023-01-25 · in SQLite-based databases on the Postgres protocol -
> This was on HN a few months back: https://github.com/losfair/mvsqlite The lead developer on mvsqlite has since joined Deno...
comment by ignoramous · 2022-12-01 · in How We Built Fly Postgres -
This was on HN a few months back: https://github.com/losfair/mvsqlite While not Spanner, it is essentially an open source db like AlloyDB or Aurora, pushing replication and scale out to the storage layer (in this case via FoundationDB).…
comment by phamilton · 2022-12-01 · in How We Built Fly Postgres -
…strictly serializable transactions, + scalable reads and writes w/ multiple concurrent writers. [1] https://github.com/losfair/mvsqlite
comment by losfair · 2022-10-14 · in Litestream live replication has been moved to the LiteFS project -
…is a primary source of contention, and causes significant INSERT slowdown in my benchmark [2]. [1] https://github.com/losfair/mvsqlite [2] https://univalence.me/posts/mvsqlite-bench-20220930
comment by losfair · 2022-10-04 · in SQLite: QEMU All over Again? -
…in [1] looks quite promising - using FoundationDb as the storage handles a lot of hairiness. 1: https://github.com/losfair/mvsqlite
comment by jacobn · 2022-10-04 · in SQLite: QEMU All over Again? -
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Show HN: mvSQLite v0.2story by losfair · 2022-10-02 · 0 comments
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…a VFS based on Foundation DB[0] that looks very promising. It was recently discussed here[1] [0]: https://github.com/losfair/mvsqlite [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32269287
comment by polyrand · 2022-09-13 · in Show HN: Query SQLite files stored in S3 -
…under degraded network (there is a fault-injection test specifically for checking this property: https://github.com/losfair/mvsqlite/blob/1dd1a80d2ff7263b07a... ). Network errors and service unavailability are handled with idempotent…
comment by losfair · 2022-08-21 · in Turning SQLite into a Distributed Database -
What makes this special compared to rqlite or dqlite? Edit: https://github.com/losfair/mvsqlite/wiki/Comparison-with-dql...
comment by nik736 · 2022-08-21 · in Turning SQLite into a Distributed Database -
There's a page in the wiki doing the comparison: https://github.com/losfair/mvsqlite/wiki/Comparison-with-dql...
comment by losfair · 2022-08-16 · in SQLite is not a toy database (2021) -
…article as I was looking for interesting resources in the SQLite ecosystem. I'm building mvsqlite ( https://github.com/losfair/mvsqlite ), as an attempt to turn SQLite into a proper distributed (not just replicated) database. Check it out…
comment by losfair · 2022-08-16 · in SQLite is not a toy database (2021) -
Nice, I dug a bit and found the git repository: https://github.com/losfair/mvsqlite Would be great to add this link to the body of your story to make it easy for HNers to get to the thing :) If no longer editable, consider emailing…
comment by metadat · 2022-07-30 · in Show HN: Distributed SQLite on FoundationDB -
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Distributed, MVCC SQLite that runs on FoundationDBstory by eatonphil · 2022-07-30 · 0 comments
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Distributed, MVCC SQLite that runs on FoundationDBstory by polyrand · 2022-07-29 · 0 comments
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Show HN: Distributed SQLite on FoundationDBstory by losfair · 2022-07-28 · 42 comments
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Show HN: Mvsqlite – Distributed, MVCC SQLite That Runs on FoundationDBstory by losfair · 2022-07-27 · 3 comments