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SQLite: Protégé of PostgreSQL

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What it is

D. Richard Hipp's PGCon 2014 keynote on SQLite's relationship to PostgreSQL. He explains that SQLite was originally written from PostgreSQL 6.5 documentation and that the two engines serve different classes of problems.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended as a talk from SQLite's main author, and cited for the project's focus on backwards compatibility and for deployment anecdotes.

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  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2014, last 2017

What HN commenters said

  1. “You might also enjoy this talk by the main author of SQLite”

    Talk by SQLite's main author comparing it to PostgreSQL.

    felixge, 2017-08 · Recommendation · in “How Postgres Makes Transactions Atomic”

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Topics: sqlite, postgresql, d. richard hipp, embedded databases, pgcon

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