The origin story of SQLite, the world’s most widely-used database software
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In a little more than two decades, it’s become the most widely deployed database in the world, according to the official webpage at SQLite.org — partly due to its simplicity.
It was bit by a radioactive database during a gamma bomb test...
And it watched as its mother (named Martha, of course) was shot in an alley behind the opera house as its rocketship was sent to earth.
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In a little more than two decades, it’s become the most widely deployed database in the world, according to the official webpage at SQLite.org — partly due to its simplicity.
It was bit by a radioactive database during a gamma bomb test...
And it watched as its mother (named Martha, of course) was shot in an alley behind the opera house as its rocketship was sent to earth.
It's a shocker that a database installed on each client that uses it has more installations than a database installed on more machines than those that have one installation supporting possibly thousands of clients. I don't think that makes it "most widely-used" though necessarily.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.