title: "rqlite, the lightweight, distributed relational database built on SQLite" date: 2019-03-22 16:49:17 categories: [data base] tags: [rqlite, sqlite]
rqlite is an easy-to-use, lightweight, distributed relational database, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. Forming a cluster is very straightforward, it gracefully handles leader elections, and tolerates failures of machines, including the leader. rqlite is available for Linux, OSX, and Microsoft Windows.