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No, serverless database is not a recent buzz word, but a term frequently used to describe DB that doesn't need a separate server running to which clients connec
by dchest 10y ago
No, serverless database is not a recent buzz word, but a term frequently used to describe DB that doesn't need a separate server running to which clients connect: compare MySQL, PostgreSQL against BDB, LMDB, SQLite.
- evanweaver 10y agoIn my communities we called the library-style dbs "embedded". I've seen serverless used in this way but it didn't seem common.
- dchest 10y agoNot every serverless database is embedded, but most of them - those that are also called "database library" are. Some examples of DBs that are both embedded and call themselves serverless: - SQLite: https://sqlite.org/serverless.html https://sqlite.org/serverless.html - UnQlite: https://www.unqlite.org/features.html#serverless https://www.unqlite.org/features.html#serverless Serverless is used to highlight this specific property of them. The OP's database is NOT embedded, but it is serverless.
- camus2 10y ago"serverless" means so many things it really means nothing, that's like "cloud computing" and that's the definition of a buzzword. Sqlite is an embedded database and has nothing to do with your favorite buzzword.
- dchest 10y agoRichard Hipp called SQLite "serverless" long before you started trying to be cool by hating buzzwords https://sqlite.org/serverless.html https://sqlite.org/serverless.html