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SQLite is really a toy database... you can link with your app and use as you wish! But if we compare alternatives... it's a huge mess. Borland comes with IDAPI
by mobilio 3y ago
SQLite is really a toy database... you can link with your app and use as you wish!
But if we compare alternatives... it's a huge mess. Borland comes with IDAPI/BDE and now dbExpress. Microsoft comes with - Jet, DAO, ADO, OLEDB, ODBC, LINQ, etc.
That's why this toy database outrun them. Because it's simply and multiplatform.
- tim333 3y agoToy seem a bit unfair. The guy who wrote it did so because he was working on damage control systems on guided-missile destroyers and the Informix system installed on the ships wasn't reliable. When he left he developed SQLite which was then used by Motorola as part of a new cell phone OS. Simple maybe but not really toy applications. (interview with guy https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/ https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/)