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I sometimes wonder how much of this objection to SQLite is purely technical, and how much is due to the fact that Dr. Richard Hipp would not exactly be a great
by LAC-Tech 4y ago
I sometimes wonder how much of this objection to SQLite is purely technical, and how much is due to the fact that Dr. Richard Hipp would not exactly be a great "cultural fit" at places like the New York Times or Mozilla.
- mypalmike 4y agoSQLite is great. But the simple fact that it runs locally makes it a poor technical fit in many scenarios.
- forinti 4y agoFor every technology there are scenarios in which it is a poor fit. You don't want to install Postgresql or Oracle on an embedded system nor would you want the extra weight of administering them for a system that has few users. The SQLite site runs on SQLite and it has considerable traffic.
- sgbeal 4y ago> The SQLite site runs on SQLite and it has considerable traffic. The forum and source code trees run on sqlite (via the Fossil SCM, authored by sqlite's Richard Hipp). The main sqlite site is static HTML with a tiny sprinking of JS.
- simonw 4y ago"But the simple fact that it runs locally makes it a poor technical fit in many scenarios" MySQL and PostgreSQL can run locally too. I assume you mean that SQLite doesn't provide a network server interface out of the box?
- sgbeal 4y agoFWIW, i just almost wet my pants laughing that that :).
- djur 4y agoI would guess that at most 1 in 50 people familiar with SQLite even know Dr. Hipp's name, much less anything about him that might influence their perception of his work.
- eru 4y agoI've looked at his homepage, and only saw something about bible translations. Is there anything else that's iconically non-NYT about him?