# LiteFS

FUSE-based file system that replicates SQLite databases across a cluster of machines.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/litefs/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-29
Listed since: 2026-10-29

## Record

### Links

- home: https://docs.fly.io/litefs
- repository: https://github.com/superfly/litefs
- docs: https://docs.fly.io/litefs/getting-started-fly

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Fly.io, Inc.
- maintainerType: company
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2022
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: database
- hosting: binary
- language: go
- runtime: binary
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: sqlite
- adminUi: not applicable
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: always-on
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: docker image flyio/litefs, copied into the application image

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: Apache-2.0

### Releases

- currentMajor: 0
- latestReleaseDate: 2025-04-22

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 4908
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 19
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- name: https://github.com/superfly/litefs (read 2026-10-29)
- urls: https://docs.fly.io/litefs (read 2026-10-29)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/superfly/litefs (read 2026-10-29)
- urls: https://docs.fly.io/litefs/getting-started-fly (read 2026-10-29)
- maintainer: https://fly.io/legal/terms-of-service (read 2026-10-29)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/superfly/litefs (read 2026-10-29)
- runtime: https://docs.fly.io/litefs/getting-started-fly (read 2026-10-29)
- category: https://docs.fly.io/litefs (read 2026-10-29)
- databases: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/superfly/litefs/main/README.md (read 2026-10-29)
- currentMajor: https://github.com/superfly/litefs/releases/tag/v0.5.14 (read 2026-10-29)
- latestReleaseDate: https://github.com/superfly/litefs/releases/tag/v0.5.14 (read 2026-10-29)
- firstRelease: https://github.com/superfly/litefs/releases/tag/v0.1.0-alpha1 (read 2026-10-29)
- license: https://github.com/superfly/litefs (read 2026-10-29)
- licenseModel: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/superfly/litefs/main/LICENSE (read 2026-10-29)
- installMethod: https://docs.fly.io/litefs/getting-started-fly (read 2026-10-29)
- installMethod: https://docs.fly.io/litefs/faq (read 2026-10-29)
- installMethod: https://docs.fly.io/litefs/getting-started-fly (read 2026-10-29)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/superfly/litefs (read 2026-10-29)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/superfly/litefs/contributors (read 2026-10-29)
- runsAs: https://docs.fly.io/litefs/getting-started-fly (read 2026-10-29)

## Notes

LiteFS is a FUSE-based file system that replicates SQLite databases across a cluster of machines. It is installed by copying the litefs binary from the flyio/litefs Docker image into an application's container, by downloading a prebuilt binary from the GitHub releases, or by setting up a cluster on Fly.io. It can run on its own or act as a supervisor process for the application. Fly.io, Inc. maintains it and publishes the documentation.

## Worth knowing

The Fly.io docs say LiteFS is outside the company's scope of support and should be used with caution, and the README describes the project as actively maintained in a beta state. The FAQ gives write throughput of about 100 transactions per second, a limit of the FUSE interface. A cluster takes its lease from Consul or from a static setting. The FAQ also compares it with Litestream.

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