Twelve years of distributed SQLite philipotoole.com

Philip O’Toole, creator of rqlite, traces distributed SQLite projects from rqlite’s 2014 launch through systems including dqlite, Litestream, LiteFS, cr-sqlite, and Turso. He argues they address three distinct needs—strongly consistent clusters, low-cost disaster recovery, and multi-writer merging—and says the idea remained open source for years before hosted services attracted major investment and acquisition.