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by Thaxll 1394 days ago
"While it continues to be the most widely used database engine in the world"

It realy depends what do you mean by that, yes it's shipping in every phones and browser, but I don't consider that as a database. Is the windows registry a database?

Oracle, MySQL, PG, MSSQL are the most widly used DB in the world, the web runs on those not SQLite.

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there are far, far more sqlite instances than Windows Registry instances in the world.

"SQLite is likely used more than all other database engines combined. Billions and billions of copies of SQLite exist in the wild. [...] Since SQLite is used extensively in every smartphone, and there are more than 4.0 billion (4.0e9) smartphones in active use, each holding hundreds of SQLite database files, it is seems likely that there are over one trillion (1e12) SQLite databases in active use."

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