[ThinkBeat]

Having been a happy user developing solutions around SQLite for a good amount of time, I find all these "enterprisy" hacks / extension curious.

There are great solutions out there that handle these things and have for a long time.

I know SQLite has become the new hotness, but I really do not want SQLite to get good at all these things because then it would no longer be great at what it does marvelously already.

[mrkurt]

This is about as non-enterprisey as it gets. It's built to make sqlite work better for tiny little node.js apps running on very cheap hosting.

[ThinkBeat]

From the first of the description of the project on GitHub.

> """LiteFS is a FUSE-based file system for replicating SQLite databases across a cluster of machines."""

> """Leader election: currently implemented by Consul using sessions """

That sounds enterprisy to me.

[benbjohnson]

I can see Consul feeling enterprise-y. If you want to distribute SQLite without downtime then you need to move the primary around and that requires leader election. We have Consul already running at Fly.io but I feel like a lot of folks have either Consul or etcd running for some part of their system out there so the idea was to be able to attach onto that.