[threecheese]

There’s a high level comparison here [1] but it doesn’t go into much detail about the architecture decisions. TLDR; litestream is continuous, sqlitersync is run as a command.

[rfc2324]

Here's the page threecheese meant to link: https://sqlrsync.com/help/alternatives

This is the very high level architecture: https://sqlrsync.com/help/architecture

Source code to the client which explains the code running on your system and how I use safe(r) sqlite3 APIs to copy a running database: https://github.com/sqlrsync/client

[threecheese]

Thank you :) so embarrassing