On: SQLedge: Replicate Postgres to SQLite on the Edge

[hinkley]

We need a standardized WAL format. Too many people trying to write software to simulate it.

[social_quotient → hinkley]

WAL = write-ahead logging?

[hinkley → social_quotient]

Yep, and the world is now full of apps that read one WAL format and copy the data somewhere else. This app, Kafka, “data lake” replication to heterogeneous databases, several other flavors of database replication, on and on. And every bit of it is custom to the WAL format of the source database.