Anton Zhiyanov lays out why he thinks SQLite is awesome:

• SQLite is the most common DBMS in the world, shipped with all popular operating systems.
• SQLite is serverless.
• For developers, SQLite is embedded directly into the app.
• For everyone else, there is a convenient database console (REPL), provided as a single file (sqlite3.exe on Windows, sqlite3 on Linux / macOS).

This echoes Ben Johnson’s sentiments in our recent conversation with him about Litestream. If you consider SQLite as merely a good databse for things that don’t matter all that much, maybe it’s time to reconsider…