Comment by bradfitz

2 months ago

We found it at Tailscale and bought an enterprise support contract from SQLite to debug it for us. Worth every penny.

We should probably blog about it.

What mission critical purpose does sqlite provide at Tailscale exactly? Why use it at all?

  • It's in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Windows 10, macOS because it efficiently solves a huge number of use cases while giving plenty of headroom for flexible querying.

    If you have data more complicated than a single CSV or tab-separated text file that you will only ever process in sequential order, and you don't need inter-process interaction, you should be asking why not use SQLite.