Marmot – A distributed SQLite server with MySQL wire compatible interface
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HN comment orderI used this a while back while running a waybackmachine style site for a large social media platform. I wanted to keep it simple with sqlite but when it got popular it started to become a problem. Marmot was the only thing that I was able to get to work with the amount of data I was pulling in. It would sync the master db from the main archiver server to all the ha servers so the user would be…
If you're interested in this, here are some related projects that all take slightly different approaches: - LiteSync directly competes with Marmot and supports DDL sync, but is closed source commercial (similar to SQLite EE): https://litesync.io - dqlite is Canonical's distributed SQLite that depends on c-raft and kernel-level async I/O: https://dqlite.io - cr-sqlite is a Rust-based loadable extension that adds CRDT changeset generation and reconciliation to SQLite: https://github.com/vlcn-io/cr-sqlite Slightly…
I really like the ongoing innovation in the SQLite ecosystem! How does this compare to LiteFS? https://github.com/superfly/litefs
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- 326
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- 83
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-09-08 | Marmot: A Distributed SQLite Replicator | spiffytech | 6 | 0 |
| 2022-09-09 | Marmot: A Distributed SQLite Replicator | ellieh | 4 | 0 |
| 2022-09-17 | Marmot: A Distributed SQLite Replicator | lapser | 5 | 1 |
| 2022-12-30 | Marmot: A distributed SQLite replicator built on top of NATS | thunderbong | 1 | 0 |
| 2023-07-06 | Marmot: A distributed SQLite replicator built on top of NATS | thunderbong | 1 | 0 |
| 2023-12-11 | Marmot: Multi-writer distributed SQLite based on NATSFirst breakout | summarity | 120 | 44 |
| 2026-01-02 | Marmot – A distributed SQLite server with MySQL wire compatible interfaceBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | zX41ZdbW | 189 | 38 |