Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.

3recommend
0warn against
Jul 17, 2026first mention
Oct 26, 2026latest mention
Nov 25 – Oct 26
Used fordistributed sqlitebenchmark comparisoncontrol plane databaseha relational db with low ops

Why people recommend it

“rqlite is amazing and warmly recommend”

uses it in production for an open source observability solutionon “Twelve years of distributed SQLite”

“It looks far easier than the mass majority of clustered database architectures.”

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“another option is e.g. rqlite”

“One application that comes up over and over again”

Caveats and dissent

“The rqlite docs however tell you to never use Strong mode and that Linearizable is sufficient.”

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Who recommends it in their own words

From the makers not counted in the ranking

“it's a fault-tolerant, highly available system. Reliability is the reason it exists.”

“I did introduce Queued Writes[1] since that talk”

“I wrote a blog post on rqlite and FTS5”

“rqlite[1] creator here, happy to answer any questions.”

“In contrast one connects with rqlite over the network - HTTP specifically.”

All comments 9

Looking further into this: The Linearizable mode is newer than the test, so we don’t know if it would have passed. https://philipotoole.com/faster-reads-same-guarantees-linearizable-consistency-in-rqlite-8-32/

“like rqlite - don't officially support BEGIN/COMMIT [0], which matters if you rely on multi-statement transactions.”

“The rqlite docs however tell you to never use Strong mode and that Linearizable is sufficient.”

“https://philipotoole.com/testing-rqlite-read-consistency/”

“have a benchmark on it that includes rqlite”

“rqlite is amazing and warmly recommend”

uses it in production for an open source observability solutionon “Twelve years of distributed SQLite”

“It looks far easier than the mass majority of clustered database architectures.”

“another option is e.g. rqlite”

“One application that comes up over and over again”

Threads where it came up

Data: rqlite.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.

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