Go bindings to SQLite using Wazero

⚠️ Work in Progress ⚠️

Go module github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3 wraps a WASM build of SQLite, and uses wazero to provide cgo-free SQLite bindings.

• Package github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3 wraps the C SQLite API (example usage).
• Package github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/driver provides a database/sql driver (example usage).
• Package github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/embed embeds a build of SQLite into your application.

Caveats

Because WASM does not support shared memory, WAL support is limited.

To work around this limitation, SQLite is compiled with SQLITE_DEFAULT_LOCKING_MODE=1, making EXCLUSIVE the default locking mode. For non-WAL databases, NORMAL locking mode can be activated with PRAGMA locking_mode=NORMAL.

Because connection pooling is incompatible with EXCLUSIVE locking mode, the database/sql driver defaults to NORMAL locking mode, and WAL databases are not supported.

Roadmap

• build SQLite using zig cc --target=wasm32-wasi
• :memory: databases
• port test_demovfs.c to Go
  • branch wasi uses test_demovfs.c directly
• design a nice API, enough for simple use cases
• provide a simple database/sql driver
• file locking, compatible with SQLite on macOS/Linux/Windows
• advanced SQLite features
  • nested transactions
  • incremental BLOB I/O
  • online backup
  • snapshots
  • session extension
  • resumable bulk update
  • shared cache mode
• custom SQL functions
• custom VFSes
  • read-only VFS, wrapping an io.ReaderAt
  • in-memory VFS, wrapping a bytes.Buffer
  • cloud-based VFS, based on Cloud Backed SQLite
  • custom VFS API

Alternatives

• modernc.org/sqlite
• crawshaw.io/sqlite
• github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3
• github.com/zombiezen/go-sqlite