SQLite: How it works, by Richard Hipp (2024) [video]
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·January 11, 2025rednafi
dietr1ch
It'll keep popping up because it's not practical to have a fully fledged database system running if your data can be downloaded in a few seconds with a phone on a decent 5G network.
rednafi
DHH and friends have recently been evangelizing it like there’s no tomorrow. Simon Willison has been bullish on SQLite for the last six years.
The Go community is pushing out tools like Litestream and LiteFS. Plus, people at fly.io, especially Ben Johnson, are heavily proselytizing SQLite. All of this adds up. Being a fantastic piece of software in its own right also helps.
andrepd
Why shouldn't it! It's fast, small, ubiquitous.
burcs
It is everywhere these days, I mean it always has been, but now people are talking about.
Love the Turso team!
klelatti
Link to slides for this talk:
anonnon
SQLite is one of the greatest pieces of software ever written, and D. Richard Hipp is a model, both professionally and personally, that other developers should emulate.
maxloh
I always found it interesting that SQLite is embedded in almost all popular operating systems and browsers. It has like 90% market share in these spaces, being included in Android, macOS, Windows, Chromium, Firefox, etc. [0]
It's very likely that the browser and operating system you're using to view this page are powered by SQLite.
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I love how sqlite just keeps popping up every now and then. Folks at Turso DB are also doing some super cool stuff with Limbo and LibSQL.