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by andrenotgiant 489 days ago
Something I've always wondered... How do downstream DB integrations like Fivetran or other ELT services play with SQLite? It seems like that's another consideration for running it in production at a real company.
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I don’t think most touch it. As much as I’ve always thought embedded dbs have a place in data analytics and warehousing, I think the issue is that it’s really a sql api on top of a file system and it’s easiest to just copy the db with something like rclone and treat it like a file. Like others mentioned there’s also litestream for replication.

Fivetran, I believe is still involved and committed to duckdb. Duckdb has a SQLite extension. So, it’s entirely possible they could add SQLite support. I would say the issue then is familiarity and demand within the industry.

https://www.fivetran.com/blog/how-fast-is-duckdb-really

They also have a talk given at duckcon that goes over the architecture.