SQLite for Rivet Actors

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47197003

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SQLite for Rivet Actors

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github.com

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Feb. 28, 2026

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45

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Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.

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Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.

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Hey HN! We posted Rivet Actors here previously [1] as an open-source alternative to Cloudflare Durable Objects.Today we've released SQLite storage for actors (Apache 2.0).Every actor gets its own SQLite database. This means you can have millions of independent databases: one for each agent, tenant, user, or document.Useful for:- AI agents: per-agent DB for message history, state, embeddings- Multi-tenant SaaS: real per-tenant isolation, no RLS hacks- Collaborative documents: each document gets its own database with built-in multiplayer- Per-user databases: isolated, scales horizontally, runs at the edgeThe idea of splitting data per entity isn't new: Cassandra and DynamoDB use partition keys to scale horizontally, but you're stuck with rigid schemas ("single-table design" [3]), limited queries, and painful migrations. SQLite per entity gives you the same scalability without those tradeoffs [2].How this compares:- Cloudflare Durable Objects & Agents: most similar to Rivet Actors with colocated SQLite and compute, but closed-source and vendor-locked- Turso Cloud: Great platform, but closed-source + diff use case. Clients query over the network, so reads are slow or stale. Rivet's single-writer actor model keeps reads local and fresh.- D1, Turso (the DB), Litestream, rqlite, LiteFS: great tools for running a single SQLite database with replication. Rivet is for running lots of isolated databases.Under the hood, SQLite runs in-process with each actor. A custom VFS persists writes to HA storage (FoundationDB or Postgres).Rivet Actors also provide realtime (WebSockets), React integration (useActor), horizontal scalability, and actors that sleep when idle.GitHub: https://github.com/rivet-dev/rivetDocs: https://www.rivet.dev/docs/actors/sqlite/[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42472519[2] https://rivet.dev/blog/2025-02-16-sqlite-on-the-server-is-mi...[3] https://www.alexdebrie.com/posts/dynamodb-single-table/

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