S3SQLite
Data
serverless database engine
SHOW HN2017
10points
3comments
#1,821of 2,242 in 2017
Top 82%of 2017 by points
How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
1 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 0 critical, out of 3 comments about the project.
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What HN said
What people liked
Idea is liked and seen as interesting
From 3 comments
I love this idea. Looking at the code it looks like the db is downloaded from s3 when a connection is opened (although I'm not entirely sure if there is some caching in here) and…
samwillis on HNThis is very interesting actually. Some questions: -In settings.py you only add <your-db-bucket>; obviously you also need AWS keys for this stored somewhere? -Can you control the…
_ao789 on HNCool! I think I'll give this one a shot :)
yujinyuz on HN
Objections
Each Lambda function must download the entire database, so it fits only small databases
From 1 comment
I love this idea. Looking at the code it looks like the db is downloaded from s3 when a connection is opened (although I'm not entirely sure if there is some caching in here) and…
samwillis on HN
Whole database is overwritten on close, so concurrent writes can clobber each other
From 1 comment
I love this idea. Looking at the code it looks like the db is downloaded from s3 when a connection is opened (although I'm not entirely sure if there is some caching in here) and…
samwillis on HN
Requests
Control over how often writes sync back to the bucket
From 1 comment
This is very interesting actually. Some questions: -In settings.py you only add <your-db-bucket>; obviously you also need AWS keys for this stored somewhere? -Can you control the…
_ao789 on HN
Merge support instead of overwrite
From 1 comment
I love this idea. Looking at the code it looks like the db is downloaded from s3 when a connection is opened (although I'm not entirely sure if there is some caching in here) and…
samwillis on HN
Questions
Where AWS keys are stored, since settings only lists the bucket
From 1 comment
This is very interesting actually. Some questions: -In settings.py you only add <your-db-bucket>; obviously you also need AWS keys for this stored somewhere? -Can you control the…
_ao789 on HN