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by l0rn 1892 days ago
It's a nice wrap up of why SQLite might be more powerful than one might think. And actually is suitable for more usecases than testing or client application storage. But imho the title is a clickbaity and not very accurate. The featureset of postgres has so much convenience that I do use in most web applications, like spatial queries and indexes (via postgis), trigram similarity, queryable JSON fields etc. Wouldn't wanna miss all that niceness.
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SQLite does have a spatial extension in Spatialite. Whether it's enough for you is up to you to decide. FTS5 does seem to have some trigram matching function that again may or may not be sufficient for you.