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This is really interesting, it's (basing it on SQLite) exactly what I was expecting CloudFlare to do for their first DB.

Its perfect for content type sites that want search and querying.

Anyone from CF here, is it using Litestream (https://litestream.io) for its replication or have you built your own replication system?

I assume this first version is somewhat limited on write performance having a single "main" instance and SQLite laking concurrent writes? It seems to me that using SQLite sessions[0] would be a good way to build an eventually consistent replication system for SQLite, would be perfect for an edge first sql database, maybe D2?

0: https://www.sqlite.org/sessionintro.html



1. No, it's not built on Litestream. Operating a massive network and shuttling data around is kind of our thing.

2. We are going all in on databases and D2 sounds like a cool name for something...


R2, D2. I see what you did there!




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