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Just "an order of magnitude"? I suspect you are off by an order of magnitude. If you count each deployed instance of each product using it, it's probably the mo
by abtinf 11y ago
Just "an order of magnitude"? I suspect you are off by an order of magnitude. If you count each deployed instance of each product using it, it's probably the most popular by close to 10 orders of magnitude.
Edit: phones are just the start. Numerous embedded products use it - the kind that ship in such large quantities that a couple pennies per device become significant sums of money. And even in the phone case, every app is using a separate database.
- adrianN 11y ago10 orders of magnitude is a lot. Are you really saying there are ten billion times more SQLlite databases than the next most popular SQL?
- masklinn 11y agoThat's probably excessive by a lot, but every modern smartphone has at least one sqlite bundled (possibly more, some software will bundle their own in case the system changes its version), OSX bundles it (and Apple Mail uses it for some stuff), Chrome and Firefox bundle it, …
- throwawaymsft 11y agoOff by "an (one) order of magnitude", i.e. off by 2 orders of magnitude.
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