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Hey Ben, great to see this progress! Is it a goal of LiteFS to serve single-instance deployments as well as Litestream does? Would you say LiteFS has already a
by mtlynch 3y ago
Hey Ben, great to see this progress!
Is it a goal of LiteFS to serve single-instance deployments as well as Litestream does? Would you say LiteFS has already achieved that at this point, or would Litestream still be the better match for single-instance apps?
I've experimented with LiteFS and liked it, but all my apps are single-deployment, so I've stuck with Litestream. But I know LiteFS is receiving much more investment, so I'm wondering if Litestream is long for this world.
- benbjohnson 3y agoThanks, Michael! Before LiteFS Cloud, I would have said that LiteFS doesn't add much value over vanilla SQLite for single-node deployments. But with the new streaming backup feature, I think it makes it easier to run single-node applications than Litestream. There's some additional benefits like being able to import/export the database remotely and doing live point-in-time restores. The main drawback to LiteFS compared to Litestream is write performance but we're alleviating that by implementing a VFS option in the future. We do have some nice features coming down the pipe for LiteFS so you can use it with purely ephemeral nodes. Let me know if you get a chance to try it out and if there's any improvements you'd like to see.
- mtlynch 3y agoCool, I'll give it a spin. Thanks, Ben!