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SQLite was built as a solution to the question "How do we put a SQL database on a nuclear submarine stealthily moving away from base for months at a time in secret, without putting a DBA in there with it?"

It can go wrong, it does go wrong, but it's a pretty solid solution, especially if you're not needing insane concurrency throughput.

The problem is many people need concurrency. They're running web apps over multiple servers. It's there where SQLite is a problem.




Source for origin? Legit interested.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQLite#History

>used aboard guided missile destroyers [...] operated without installing a database management system or requiring a database administrator

PS. Thanks to your question, today I re-discovered https://unqlite.org, which may fulfill a requirement I've been facing for some time. Awesome!


Hey hey, unqlite looks pretty interesting. I'm both glad you were able to rediscover it and glad that I can have fun reading about it!




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