benbjohnson/litestream
Streaming replication for SQLite.
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Where it stands
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2 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 3 days ago, with 44 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides streaming replication for SQLite databases by incrementally replicating changes to another file or S3 storage.
- Ensures safe, non-corrupting disaster recovery by interacting only through the SQLite API and running as a background process.
- Use for enabling continuous backup of SQLite databases to cloud storage like Amazon S3 for disaster recovery.
- Use for maintaining real-time replicas of SQLite databases in distributed environments without modifying application code.
- Use for integrating SQLite replication into containerized or Kubernetes deployments to improve data durability and availability.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
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From the README
Litestream is a standalone disaster recovery tool for SQLite. It runs as a background process and safely replicates changes incrementally to another file or S3. Litestream only communicates with SQLite through the SQLite API so it will not corrupt your database.
If you need support or have ideas for improving Litestream, please visit GitHub Issues. Please visit the Litestream web site for installation instructions and documentation.
If you find this project interesting, please consider starring the project on GitHub.
Daily snapshots
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Forks
457+65
Open issues
144+31
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| benbjohnson/litestream | 14.6K | — | 60 | 3 days ago |
| Category median | 41.3K | +287 | 75 | — |
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