[Charlug] REAL stuff

[Dennis Clark]

Bob Evans wrote:
> SQLite is embedded into things like:
>
> Google
>
> Mac OS/X
>
> Firefox
>
> Skype
>
> See:
>
> http://www.sqlite.org/mostdeployed.html
>
> -be
How does Google use SQLite? It's not mentioned in the "most deployed" list.

SQLite is an embedded DB and has limited support for concurrency (see
questions 5 & 6 in http://www.sqlite.org/faq.html). In that respect it
is more of a successor to Berkeley DB rather than a real competitor to
database servers. Almost all the uses of SQLite in the "most deployed"
list is in client applications.

If the goal is to find a more lightweight alternative to MySQL, I'd be
more inclined to look at Apache Derby, although I have to admit to being
a bit biased towards Java-based solutions these days (I'm a ColdFusion
developer).

-- Dennis