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rqlite

Relational Databases

A lightweight, fault‑tolerant distributed relational database built on SQLite

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Features

  • Full SQL support via embedded SQLite (including FTS5, JSON1, etc.)
  • High availability through automatic replication and clustering
  • Simple HTTP API with optional CLI and client libraries
  • Atomic multi‑statement requests for transactional consistency

Recent releases

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v10.0.1 Bug fix

Minor fixes and improvements.

Full changelog

rqlite is a lightweight, user-friendly, distributed relational database, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. rqlite provides an easy-to-use, fault-tolerant and highly-available store for your most important relational data. You can learn a lot more about rqlite at rqlite.io.

See the CHANGELOG for full details on v10.0.1, and check out the Assets section below for prebuilt binaries.

Getting started

Check out the Quick Start guide.

To download and run a single rqlite node follow the directions below. It's also very easy to run a rqlite cluster -- you can learn more by checking out the documentation.

If you wish to build rqlite from source, check out this documentation.

Docker

In addition to Docker Hub, images are also uploaded to ghcr.io.

Run a single node as follows:

docker run -p4001:4001 rqlite/rqlite

Check out the rqlite Docker page for more details on running rqlite via Docker, including how to deploy a cluster.

Linux

Builds for a variety of CPU architectures are available. See the Assets section below if you wish to download and install manually.

The easiest way to install rqlite on Linux:

curl -fsSL https://rqlite.io/install.sh -o install.sh
sh install.sh

To install a specific version:

curl -fsSL https://rqlite.io/install.sh -o install.sh
RQLITE_VERSION=v10.0.1 INSTALL_DIR={location} sh install.sh

Packages

.deb and .rpm packages for amd64 and arm64 are available in the Assets section below.

Install on Debian/Ubuntu:

sudo dpkg -i rqlite_10.0.1_amd64.deb
sudo systemctl start rqlited

Install on RHEL/Fedora:

sudo rpm -i rqlite-10.0.1-1.x86_64.rpm
sudo systemctl start rqlited

macOS

Install via Homebrew.

brew install rqlite

Windows

You can download a pre-built release for Windows in one of two ways:

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