[harperlee]

How is not apples to oranges? You are comparing a library that implements a database (with a specific binary file format that any sqlite instance understands, and a query language, among other functionalities) to a programming language!

With sqlite, creating an index is a one-liner. How do you cover that in clojure? With sqlite, a whole database fits in one file that can be read by almost any macos / linux machine. With clojure, you need your specific program created on top of clojure installed in the machine. Etc.

At the end of the day, you can reimplement sqlite on clojure, which basically proves that we are talking about different abstraction levels, thus apples to oranges.