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Litestream: Revamped
Bringing in what we learned from LiteFS
Without changing that running application, it takes over the WAL checkpointing process to continuously stream database updates to an S3-compatible object store. The original design constraint of both Litestream and LiteFS was to extend SQLite, to modern deployment scenarios, without disturbing people’s built code. In the old Litestream design, WAL-change polling and slow restores made it infeasible to replicate large numbers of databases from a single process.
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