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SQLite is a portable DBMS library that exposes a SQL language interface that is built and runs under every OS and language under the sun, for the most part. It is probably the single-most distributed library on the planet (in aggregate). And likely one of the most used libraries (top 10) on just about every given OS and platform/language.

Mongita is only useful for Python developers.

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I like sqlite and agree with your it should run everywhere to be compared.

I question that it is the most distributed library on the planet. Is there something backing that up? It would be cool but very shocking.

I can't say it's the most, but it does get used a lot. Chromium and descendants, Firefox, bunch of chat apps (Telegram, WeChat), and so on. You probably have multiple copies per machine.

The SQLite people are quite proud of their ubiquity: https://sqlite.org/mostdeployed.html

> I question that it is the most distributed library on the planet. Is there something backing that up? It would be cool but very shocking.

I recall seeing that claim made ~2 years ago, with data to back it up. I think many people forget that it is shipped (or statically compiled into an application that is shipped) on every android device (handset, TVs, etc), every Linux installation, every Windows installation and every OSX installation.

I do not know of any other library that has that penetration. I don't know about iOS.

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