[Charlug] REAL stuff

[C. Michael Pilato]

Dennis Clark wrote:
> 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.

Maybe in their desktop apps?

(We're using SQLite in Subversion now, too, for client-side metadata
storage.  No way we'd use it for the server side of things because of the
global writer locking it employs.)

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