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Show HN: rqlite v2.2.2, replicating SQLite via Raft consensus
- FatAmericanDev 11y agoThis is cool. On a related topics, I'm still waiting for a sqlite for graphs to emerge.
- ganitayu 11y agorqlite ensures that every change made to the database is made to a quorum of SQLite files, or none at all. So that means if a single node in the cluster fails then everything stops?
- otoolep 11y agoNo. As long as (n/2)+1 nodes are up, where n is the size of the cluster, everything continues to work.
- asimuvPR 11y agoStupid question: What if I want the databases to be built with optional extensions (like the json extension)? Is there a way to deal with such scenario? Cool project!
- tyingq 11y agoWell done. I am curious, though, if you tried implementing this as a sqlite VFS. That would allow it to be more plug-n-play with existing software that already talks to sqlite. I suppose you would have had to hack up something to map offset ranges into key/value pairs, but at a high level, it seems feasible.
- otoolep 11y agoI looked up SQLite VFS. That's pretty interesting, though I am not sure if rqlite has sufficient control over that low a layer in the system, due to the way rqlite is built. I opened an issue anyway, to look into this. https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite/issues/108 https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite/issues/108
- tyingq 11y agoI was really just curious if you had looked at it and ruled it out. Pretty sure it would be a different approach not compatible with the way rqlite works. At the VFS level, you're only seeing the reads/writes/locks to the data file...no visibility to the sql.
- sargun 11y agoIf you implement a VFS, you have to either implement the WAL subsystem yourself, which isn't pluggable at the moment, or go with journaling mode, which is kinda meh.
- tyingq 11y ago>>If you implement a VFS, you have to either implement the WAL subsystem yourself It's pluggable in the sense that it maps the the shared memory calls for WAL to your calls. But yeah, figuring out how to emulate shared memory across a cluster is on the implementer.
- sargun 11y agoI built one recently. We have a SQLite VFS built on top of Zookeeper for doing metadata-like stuff. We can pull between 1000-100000 reads per seconds out of it. I realize that this is a total abuse of what Zookeeper does, and how it is supposed to work, but hey, this is a solution that's _simple_ and _correct_. Here are the benchmarks comparing the traditional VFS with the ZK VFS: https://gist.github.com/sargun/7503ba636c1a0eb2e2f5cda7a6a23db2 https://gist.github.com/sargun/7503ba636c1a0eb2e2f5cda7a6a23... PS: Feel free to ask me any questions
- alexnewman 11y agoI don't think now works. Great idea though! Great demonstration ifnot nothing else. Can we do one over 2pc as well?
- otoolep 11y agoYeah, certain non-deterministic functionality can't be used. This is called out here: https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite#limitations https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite#limitations Though with now() you could calculate that before you issue the query.
- zmmmmm 11y agoIs this a potential way to work around the single-writer nature of SQLite? It's probably the main limitation I hit when using SQLite, which otherwise fits a lot of jobs very well. Obviously you would not want to use it for situations where there is contention, but SQLite locks the whole database even if you are writing to completely separate tables.
- otoolep 11y agoNo, unfortunately not, as every change must go through a single node i.e. the leader. The same limitations as a standalone SQLite database apply.