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by matheusmoreira 1400 days ago
> if you're using SQLite outside of toy environments or hobby projects, you're doing it wrong

https://www.sqlite.org/mostdeployed.html

> Every Android device

> Every iPhone and iOS device

> Every Mac

> Every Windows 10 machine

> Every Firefox, Chrome, and Safari web browser

> Every instance of Skype

> Every instance of iTunes

> Every Dropbox client

> Every TurboTax and QuickBooks

> PHP and Python

> Most television sets and set-top cable boxes

> Most automotive multimedia systems

> Countless millions of other applications

Look at all those toys.

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everyone is doing it wrong :(
Not necessarily.

If you ponder the importance of proper (robust, reliable, dependable) data management for data that keeps nuclear plants going, for farmaceutical research data, for anything happening on the financial markets, for medical records, for data concerning payroll and the like, etc. etc. then you might appreciate that all the stuff mentioned in the list is indeed really "just toys".