SQLite: How it works, by Richard Hipp (2024) [video]

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94 points·thunderbong··8 comments

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.

Why shouldn't it! It's fast, small, ubiquitous.

It is everywhere these days, I mean it always has been, but now people are talking about.

Love the Turso team!

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.

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.

Link to slides for this talk:

https://sqlite.org/talks/howitworks-20240624.pdf

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.

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.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQLite#Notable_uses

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