I haven't used SQLite until a few weeks ago because I've always had an Oracle or Postgres running and it was an easy choice. Recently, I needed a self containe

I haven't used SQLite until a few weeks ago because I've always had an Oracle or Postgres running and it was an easy choice. Recently, I needed a self contained solution for a Python project, and I wanted the SQL support with minimum installation and system dependencies. I tried SQLite - I'm absolutely amazed how well it worked for the task. I don't know how SQLite scales for large data sets, but for a small tasks it's fantastic, and can be trivially ported to something like Postgres.