Re:I'm all-in on server-side SQLite
by tptacek on Monday May 09, 2022 @09:19PM
(#31322201)
CoffeeScript was not in fact just Javascript. Litestream literally is just sqlite3; it's not an app dependency, and doesn't interpose itself between your app and sqlite3. You could add it to an existing single-process SQLite-backed app without changing any code or configuration, other than running the Litestream process.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
It's brilliant that a person can ship their WAL from an app that doesn't know anything about Litestream. That's cool. But it is not in fact just SQLite. If it were, there wouldn't be a blog post, or an additional binary to download, or a backup of my database in S3, or...
This is like saying simply rsync'ing the database file is "not just SQLite". Sure, in one particularly unuseful parsing of the words "just SQLite".
Re:I'm all-in on server-side SQLite
by kasey_junk on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @08:24AM
(#31326221)
I think saying it is “just SQLite” is (unintentionally) misleading. Your app may not know it’s anything else but operationally it’s a sidecar, so another process to manage.
I actually had to go look that up because it was a little unclear from the blog post and this comments section.