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The goalposts keep moving here. You can just take any arbitrary definition of important and use it to exclude SQLite deployments.

It's all semantics, and also irrelevant to the original article anyway, since nowhere does it argue that SQLite holds the most data (important or otherwise).

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I didn’t comment earlier so I can’t move a goalpost I never set down. I agree with the root comment that there may be more instances of SQLite, the most important data is not in SQLite.

For what it’s worth, I have used any number of databases over the years and SQLite is very good for a number of things.

None of those things are the core infrastructure that stores your emails, money, and other must have, shared, high availability data.

There are different tools for different jobs, that’s fine.

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