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sql.js-httpvfs
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phiresky / sql.js-httpvfs

sql.js-httpvfs

Hosting read-only SQLite databases on static file hosters like Github Pages

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31Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
3.7KGitHub stars
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What it is

Hosting read-only SQLite databases on static file hosters like Github Pages

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 10:02:05 AM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2021-05-02 21:02:05 UTC to 2026-07-23 22:51:24 UTC.

02468102021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 10 mentions; 0 submissions, 10 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 0 submissions, 7 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC10010
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC707
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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I couldn't find do these wrappers support read-only SQLite databases with HTTP range requests, like in this famous post [1]. Phiresky's wrapper supports it, but it seems to be rebuilding the whole sql.js [2], I'd rather have it as VFS on top of sqlite.org's own WASM module. I like the idea of HTTP range requests, but I don't want to run a fork, that will be unmaintained in few years. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27016630 [2]: https://github.com/phiresky/sql.js-httpvfs
In A future for SQL on the web (2021)
I've just been exploring serving large SQLite databases in chunks and querying them with http range requests to prevent downloading the entire database. It's pretty awesome! I found a really interesting library called sql.js-httpvfs[0] that does pretty much all the work. I chunked up my 350Mb sqlite db into 43 x 8Mb pieces with the included script and uploaded them with my static files to GitHub, which gets deployed via GitHub Pages.[1] It's in the very rough early stages but you can check it out here. https://transcript.fish I recommend going into the console and network tab to see it in action. It's impressively quick and I haven't even fine-tuned it at all yet. SQLite rules. [0] https://github.com/phiresky/sql.js-httpvfs [1] https://github.com/noman-land/transcript.fish
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