Marmot v2.20
A distributed SQLite server with MySQL wire compatbility
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Marmot hits major milestone I've been solo pushing (with help of AI), to really mature out the system. And yesterday I have hit the first milestone where MySQL API is stable enough to make WordPress install and work flawlessly. System is now in a place where you can spin off a cluster, and then spin off many replicas you want to scale out. I wanted to build something that is actually hard with AI, and it's been long and tough journey trying various AI tools, and huge amount of learning. I will follow up with a blog post, but since I have all the scripts to help you guys spin up cluster and examples I wanted to put it out there so that you guys can poke holes and help me improve it.Source is available at: https://github.com/maxpert/marmot/Most fun part is a Wordpress running in cluster: https://github.com/maxpert/marmot/tree/master/examples/wordp...Each one of these Wordpress instances is talking to it's own "MySQL" but under the hood replication is being done and stored over SQLite DB.
HN · launched Dec 12, 2025 · 5 upvotes (top 90%) · 0 views
Niche: database management systems and engines · 162 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -17% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Data infrastructure
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
No Implementing a distributed database clustering system with consensus, replication, and wire-level MySQL protocol compatibility requires deep systems and distributed consensus expertise.
What it would actually take: The architecture requires implementing the MySQL binary client-server protocol parser, a distributed consensus engine (such as Raft or custom replication logs), SQLite snapshot/WAL change-data-capture synchronization, and transaction isolation management. Deep systems programming skills in Go or Rust, distributed systems theory, and database internals are required to ensure data integrity and avoid split-brain issues.
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Launched 44 days after the earliest competitor.
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