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PG steamrolls every other general purpose database, and has tons of extensions, and frontends so you can use it in any database paradigm.

With 30m minutes of time, you can turn it into a document db, log/time series db, columnar, graph, key value, whatever

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I bet we'd both seriously consider (if not prefer) sqlite over postgres in a bunch of scenarios?

SQLite is amazing, and “lite” is really not fair. I’ve seen it handle 1tb+ with at least decent performance.

It’s not a replacement for a real DB but it is damn close.

It's not, because it is a real DB. It's just one for single user access only.

> Think of SQLite not as a replacement for Oracle but as a replacement for fopen().

https://sqlite.org/about.html

Well sure, it’s better be thought of as a replacement for fopen() than one for Oracle. (Unless you were thinking of buying Oracle in order to use it on your desktop.) An even better way would be to compare it with MS Access, for example.

Actually as I understand it (and a couple of minutes Googling doesn't back up my case) the "lite" on the end is pronounced "ite" and refers more to SQL as a geology like term. In other words, the SQL is a rock.

Even if that was what the name was intended to be, the vast majority of people pronounce it as SQL - lite. (In fact, this is the first I've heard of someone pronouncing it that way).

The documentation seems to suggest that it is in fact pronounced "SQL-lite": https://www.sqlite.org/fullsql.html

> Don't be misled by the "Lite" in the name.

I love PG and sometimes I see some cases where maybe Sqlite would work "better" but just as soon as it starts to get a little bigger I start missing all the cool stuff that PG has.

Sqlite is still awesome but PG is more awesomer. And since the cost is the same I just stick with PG now. Unless I'm resource constrained (which for my work is rare)

sqlite is a wonderful, amazing, file manipulation API. If single-threaded file manipulation is what you need, its great. But is not an application backend in the way PG can be.

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