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minus-squarebjorneylinkfedilinkarrow-up9·5 months agoSqlite is absolutely installed on the most devices, but there is a big grey area depending on how you count “used” I have 30 apps on my phone, am I a single sqlite user? or 30 of them? Facebook/Netflix/etc. uses postgres/mysql, does that count as 1 user or a billion?
minus-squareKilling_Spark@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoI’d go by queries executed per day globally. But I wouldn’t be able to tell you which system wins that. If I had to guess I’d say sqlite just because of the insane amount of mobile devices that exist. But maybe that’s wrong.
Sqlite is absolutely installed on the most devices, but there is a big grey area depending on how you count “used”
I have 30 apps on my phone, am I a single sqlite user? or 30 of them?
Facebook/Netflix/etc. uses postgres/mysql, does that count as 1 user or a billion?
I’d go by queries executed per day globally. But I wouldn’t be able to tell you which system wins that. If I had to guess I’d say sqlite just because of the insane amount of mobile devices that exist. But maybe that’s wrong.