*Detailed background on rqlite can be found on [these blog posts](http://www.philipotoole.com/tag/rqlite/)*.
*rqlite* is a distributed relational database, which uses [SQLite](https://www.sqlite.org/) as its storage engine. rqlite is written in [Go](http://golang.org/) and uses [Raft](http://raftconsensus.github.io/) to achieve consensus across all the instances of the SQLite databases. rqlite ensures that every change made to the database is made to a quorum of SQLite files, or none at all.