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It's great that people are realising that SQLite is a solid tool to use everywhere. But it amusing that this article reads like: I tried a 25 year old database
by anacrolix 3y ago
It's great that people are realising that SQLite is a solid tool to use everywhere. But it amusing that this article reads like: I tried a 25 year old database developed by an elite team in the fastest and best supported systems level programming language and it was good!
- indigochill 3y agoYeah, I feel like there's this ingrained assumption people have that because SQLite can run in-memory that it's "not a real database". I've never really understood it (since I _love_ using it in my personal projects), but I've also never really had the chance to use SQLite in production.
- Multicomp 3y agoI think the name gives it a poor initial reputation as well. Who wants lite SQL? That's diet SQL. Inferior. SQLight has connotations of speed and energy and all those marketing keyword association goodies.
- john-tells-all 3y agoFor some reason there's a lot of people on Reddit who post "Sqlite is only for toys". In my experience Sqlite is great for everything, with a number of exceptions: https://dev.to/johntellsall/re-more-on-sqlite-vs-mysqlpostgres-33pn https://dev.to/johntellsall/re-more-on-sqlite-vs-mysqlpostgr...