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A comment on Bedrock – A modular, WAN-replicated, blockchain-based database.

Re:Bedrock – A modular, WAN-replicated, blockchain-based dat... by bestouff on Monday September 23, 2019 @03:25AM (#21046652)
"Bedrock was built by Expensify, and is a networking and distributed transaction layer built atop SQLite, the fastest, most reliable, and most widely distributed database in the world."

I didn't know SQLite was a distributed database.

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Re:Bedrock – A modular, WAN-replicated, blockchain-based dat... by cyphar on Monday September 23, 2019 @05:50AM (#21047359)
As others have said, "distributed" in this context means "widely used". However, there is work to make SQLite be able to work as a distributed database (and this code is being run in production on LXD clusters)[1].

[1]: https://dqlite.io/

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Re:Bedrock – A modular, WAN-replicated, blockchain-based dat... by rbrtrbrt on Monday September 23, 2019 @03:42AM (#21046726)
I read is as "(most widely distributed) database".

The SQLite site phrases it more precisely: "Most Widely Deployed and Used Database Engine" https://www.sqlite.org/mostdeployed.html

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Re:Bedrock – A modular, WAN-replicated, blockchain-based dat... by jasonvorhe on Monday September 23, 2019 @03:29AM (#21046668)
I think it's supposed to mean that it's the most used and not that it is actually distributed.
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