Is SQLite still relevant?

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SQLite works great as the database engine for most low to medium traffic websites (which is to say, most websites). The amount of web traffic that SQLite can handle depends on how heavily the website uses its database. Generally speaking, any site that gets fewer than 100K hits/day should work fine with SQLite.

Do people still use SQLite?

SQLite is used by literally millions of applications with literally billions and billions of deployments. SQLite is the most widely deployed database engine in the world today.

Is SQLite deprecated?

The browsers Google Chrome, Opera, Safari and the Android Browser all allow for storing information in, and retrieving it from, a SQLite database within the browser, using the Web SQL Database technology, although this is rapidly becoming deprecated (namely superseded by IndexedDB).

Is SQLite worth learning?

If you are looking for a solution that is a great embedded database that follows SQL semantics and multi-user access to the data is not really needed, then SQLite is a good choice.

Do companies use SQLite?

We have data on 14,493 companies that use SQLite. The companies using SQLite are most often found in United States and in the Computer Software industry. SQLite is most often used by companies with 10-50 employees and 1M-10M dollars in revenue.

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