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by jcpst 1130 days ago
Sqlite intends to keep their cathedral intact until 2050.

https://sqlite.org/lts.html

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I never saw this page before. Brilliant! Like catnip for nerds.

    Disaster planning → Every byte of source-code history for SQLite is cryptographically protected and is automatically replicated to multiple geographically separated servers, in datacenters owned by different companies. Thousands of additional clones exist on private servers around the world. The primary developers of SQLite live in different regions of the world. SQLite can survive a continental catastrophe.
SQLite can survive a continental catastrophe!!!
SQLite is awesome. TIL that its database structure is robust enough to have been chosen as one of only 4 Recommended Storage Formats for long term data preservation[0].

> "Recommended storage formats are formats which, in the opinion of the preservationists at the Library of Congress, maximizes the chance of survival and continued accessibility of digital content.

[0] https://www.sqlite.org/locrsf.html

Along with... xls.