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by j0e1 389 days ago
This is exciting! Especially glad that Litestream is still maintained. Is there a use-case for Litestream for more than backup? I am a fan of offline-first but it would be cool to have a way to synchronize on-device SQLite instances to a single central instance.
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benbjohnson 389 days ago
Backups & read replicas are the primary use cases. If you're interested in local-first, you can check out projects like cr-sqlite[1].

[1]: https://github.com/vlcn-io/cr-sqlite

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dankebitte 389 days ago
> read replicas

Can this be done with only Litestream, or is LiteVFS still in development? I looked into this last year but was put off by LiteFS's stated write performance penalty due to FUSE [1]; it's still marked as WIP [2] and hasn't seen updates for over a year.

[1] https://fly.io/docs/litefs/faq/#what-are-the-tradeoffs-of-us...

[2] https://github.com/superfly/litevfs

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j0e1 389 days ago
Thank you Ben for the great work on this project! Also, I remember looking into this one and: https://github.com/vlcn-io/cr-sqlite/issues/444
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