[rektide]

> Our new engine is based on intercepting SQLite's disk writes and doing clever stuff with them. It was so easy because the file format is not just well designed but amazingly well-documented.

Quite the hobby project for a lot of people too! Other folks doing this:

Rqlite https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Rqlite&sort=byDate , Dqlite https://hn.algolia.com/?query=dqlite&sort=byDate , Litestream https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Litestream&sort=byDate / LiteFS https://hn.algolia.com/?query=LiteFS&sort=byDate, marmot, mvsqlite https://hn.algolia.com/?query=mvsqlite&sort=byDate

[otoolep]

I've been doing it for almost 10 years. :-)

https://www.philipotoole.com/9-years-of-open-source-database...