Go bindings to SQLite using Wazero

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

• github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3 wraps the C SQLite API (example usage).
• github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/driver provides a database/sql driver (example usage).
• github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/embed embeds a build of SQLite into your application.
• github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/vfs wraps the C SQLite VFS API and provides a pure Go implementation.
• github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/vfs/memdb implements an in-memory VFS.
• github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/vfs/readervfs implements a VFS for immutable databases.
• github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/ext/unicode registers Unicode aware functions.
• github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/ext/stats registers statistics functions.
• github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/gormlite provides a GORM driver.

Caveats

This module replaces the SQLite OS Interface (aka VFS) with a pure Go implementation. This has benefits, but also comes with some drawbacks.

Write-Ahead Logging

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

To work around this limitation, SQLite is patched to always use EXCLUSIVE locking mode for WAL databases.

Because connection pooling is incompatible with EXCLUSIVE locking mode, to use the database/sql driver with WAL mode databases you should disable connection pooling by calling db.SetMaxOpenConns(1).

POSIX Advisory Locks

POSIX advisory locks, which SQLite uses, are broken by design.

On Linux, macOS and illumos, this module uses OFD locks to synchronize access to database files. OFD locks are fully compatible with process-associated POSIX advisory locks.

On BSD Unixes, this module uses BSD locks. On BSD Unixes, BSD locks should be compatible with process-associated POSIX advisory locks.

TL;DR

In all platforms for which this package builds out of the box, it should be safe to use it to access databases concurrently, from multiple goroutines, processes, and with other implementations of SQLite.

If the package does not build for your platform, see this.

Testing

The pure Go VFS is tested by running SQLite's mptest on Linux, macOS and Windows. Performance is tested by running speedtest1.

Roadmap

• advanced SQLite features
  • custom functions
  • nested transactions
  • incremental BLOB I/O
  • online backup
  • JSON support
  • session extension
• custom VFSes
  • custom VFS API
  • in-memory VFS
  • read-only VFS, wrapping an io.ReaderAt
  • cloud-based VFS, based on Cloud Backed SQLite

Alternatives

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