If people are interested in studying a combination of Raft and SQLite, you could check out this Raft-based database I created: https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite

If people are interested in studying a combination of Raft and SQLite, you could check out this Raft-based database I created: https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite Your point about "the impression that you can just plug Raft into an existing system and suddenly have a performant and scalable distributed system" is an excellent one. One the biggest misconceptions I come across is that rqlite is distributed for performance when it's actually all about reliability. In fact performance is significantly reduced versus just writing to SQLite itself.