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by muti 65 days ago
Unfortunate name furthers the SQLite is "lite" association i.e. underpowered or incapable somehow.

IIRC it is intended to be read as SQL-ite, as having some relationship to SQL.

PG Lite probably makes sense here though, and PGite is not appealing

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I've always thought "lite" or light to mean non resource intensive to run, not necessarily less feature-rich.
> I wrote SQLite, and I think it should be pronounced "S-Q-L-ite". Like a mineral. But I'm cool with y'all pronouncing it any way you want. :-)

https://stackoverflow.com/a/49656730

So it’s actually not -lite but -ite. =)