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"The reason why ... [SQLite] needed to exist ... The genesis story?" Richard summarizes the development history. 20:39 to 27:20 "Why is SQLite so ubiquitous?"
by krutulis 10y ago
"The reason why ... [SQLite] needed to exist ... The genesis story?" Richard summarizes the development history. 20:39 to 27:20
"Why is SQLite so ubiquitous?" "Its goal is that it just works .... Apparently we win competitions ... I don't know why or how." 30:20
"SQLite is ... not client-server. Why didn't I do this? ... I'm not a database person. I didn't know I was supposed to." 34:25
On "flexible typing" 40:22
"People tell me I could have made a lot of money off this if I had any business sense .... But you know what? We make enough." at 1:06:10
- adamstac 10y agoThanks for pulling out all these time codes and quotes. This was awesome.
- j_s 10y agoThanks for taking the time to share your favorite quotes.
- heinrichhartman 10y agoI am curious about the third one. Why do all other DB products use a clinet-server model, or at least have a dedicated thread for the DB? I suppose, you can handle writes asynchronously to gain some performance. Are there other upsides?
- heinrichhartman 10y agoHe gives the answer himself a few minutes later (46:00): "You need that server process to coordinate write concurrency."