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 v9.3.20, 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.

To download and start rqlite, execute the following in a shell.

curl -L https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite/releases/download/v9.3.20/rqlite-v9.3.20-linux-amd64.tar.gz -o rqlite-v9.3.20-linux-amd64.tar.gz
tar xvfz rqlite-v9.3.20-linux-amd64.tar.gz
cd rqlite-v9.3.20-linux-amd64
./rqlited data/

macOS

Install via Homebrew.

brew install rqlite

Windows

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

• The top-of-tree build is available for download from AppVeyor. Check out the CI build for Windows for more details.
• Download the Win64 build artifact attached to this release.