---
title: "Building a highly-available search engine using SQLite"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/building-a-highly-available-search-engine-using-sqlite-sg37dt6uk
source_url: https://www.philipotoole.com/building-a-highly-available-search-engine-using-sqlite/
type: article
source: "Lobsters"
published: 2024-04-27T04:10:22.978Z
updated: 2025-09-06T02:40:22.844Z
tags: ["full-text-search", "sqlite"]
reading_time: 5
upvotes: 4
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Building a highly-available search engine using SQLite

**[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 5 min read · 4 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Build a highly-available search engine using SQLite as the storage engine for rqlite, a lightweight distributed database. Easily deploy and interact with the search engine using SQL and HTTP.

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