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SQlite is good as software, but PR for it is annoying and to much.
by compilator1 3y ago
SQlite is good as software, but PR for it is annoying and to much.
- matharmin 3y agoSQLite comes up a lot on HN, but it's not PR - it's content that others find interesting, myself included. In most cases it's not even official SQLite content being posted, but rather other projects or blogs around it.
- mpixel 3y agoIt's almost as if a site for tech has bias for tech commonly enjoyed by the readers of the said site. I'm shocked, truly.
- thatwasunusual 3y agoIf anything, SQLite deserves _more_ PR. It's a fantastic piece of software, and at my company we use it _a lot_; mostly for testing, but also for some micro-services where data amount is small-ish, and almost never change (postal codes, country data etc.) I hate it when I see .NET Core tutorials (as an example) where they fire up MSSQL in EF just for tiny amounts of data, and then using a bloated DB-viewer GUI to show what's in the database, instead of just going to the CLI asking SQLite "directly."
- empthought 3y agoSQLite works pretty great for managing larger or more dynamic datasets, too; it’s just where concurrent access begins to increase that it stops being appropriate.
- masklinn 3y agoConcurrent writes, not concurrent accesses. Especially after enabling wal mode.
- simonw 3y agoAs far as I can tell the SQLite team's main PR strategy is consistently and quietly releasing software that's so good that large numbers of people do PR for them, for free.