Hacker News Reader

Two definitions of serverless?

I heard many, but what they're writing isn't one of them.

As far as I can tell SQLite was always called an embedded database, and never a serverless one.

The page is more that 10 years old. And it uses "serverless" in the sence of server-less aka not having a server. Which is pretty damn sensible terminology, as opposed to the newer "serverless" meaning" runs on some utility server outside of your care or control".

I know, but have you anyone calling "embedded databases" "serverless databases" in the last 10 years?

It's like someone found this page and felt very smart about it, because they stick it to the serverless crowd.

"embedded database" does not imply "serverless database". Other embedded RDBMSes run servers; they just run the server as a separate thread rather than a separate process. SQLite is different in that there is no separate thread of control. SQLite runs in the same thread as the application that calls it. There is no separate thread hanging around to clean up or handle background tasks after an SQLite function call returns.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com