Building a robust, performant distributed database on top of a standalone database is not at all trivial. Sure, you could boil it down to "consensus algorithm +

Building a robust, performant distributed database on top of a standalone database is not at all trivial. Sure, you could boil it down to "consensus algorithm + DB" but there are countless edge cases. I am not very familiar with this project, but it seems pretty well-tested: https://philipotoole.com/how-is-rqlite-tested/ https://philipotoole.com/how-is-rqlite-tested/ And you can look at the code here: https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite Does seem a wee bit more complicated than a CRUD PHP service.