But the other one is not available to most and SQLite itself is "open-source" not "open-contributions" so extending SQLite is pretty much impossible at scale:
- no way to merge upstream
- no way to run full test-suit to be sure everything is tiptop
Indeed. That is a problem for developing SQLite without having an agreement with the developers. That is not a problem for me choosing to use SQLite in my stack.
but the other one has decades of engineering effort and is based on real world problems
But the other one is not available to most and SQLite itself is "open-source" not "open-contributions" so extending SQLite is pretty much impossible at scale:
- no way to merge upstream
- no way to run full test-suit to be sure everything is tiptop
Indeed. That is a problem for developing SQLite without having an agreement with the developers. That is not a problem for me choosing to use SQLite in my stack.