In all fairness, litestream is no CockroachDB/PlanetScale/YugaByte; but why pay the ops overhead (and your lawyers to make sense of their "OSS" licenses) when litestream would do just as nicely.
TFA goes (emphasis mine):
Litestream..grabs a lock so that no other process can checkpoint. It then watches the WAL file and streams the appended blocks up to S3, periodically checkpointing the database for you when it has the necessary segments uploaded. ___This gives you near real time backups and lets you replay your database from S3 trivially..It's a great hack, and a small enough program that I could read my way through it entirely before committing to it.___
Take a look at https://litestream.io/guides/systemd/ and compare that with CockroachDB's.
In all fairness, litestream is no CockroachDB/PlanetScale/YugaByte; but why pay the ops overhead (and your lawyers to make sense of their "OSS" licenses) when litestream would do just as nicely.
TFA goes (emphasis mine):
Litestream..grabs a lock so that no other process can checkpoint. It then watches the WAL file and streams the appended blocks up to S3, periodically checkpointing the database for you when it has the necessary segments uploaded. ___This gives you near real time backups and lets you replay your database from S3 trivially..It's a great hack, and a small enough program that I could read my way through it entirely before committing to it.___