Source: thenewstack.io
The Origin Story of SQLite, the World’s Most Widely-Used Database SoftwareCategory: Database
Last week Adam Gordon Bellbrought a special guest onto his podcast Corecursive: Richard Hipp, the main author of SQLite. In a little more than two decades, it’s become the most widely deployed database in the world, according to the official webpage at SQLite.org — partly due to its simplicity.
Back in the year 2000, Hipp was working for Bath Iron Works, a shipbuilding subsidiary of defense contractor General Dynamics, and was building software for a Navy destroyer (the USS Oscar Austin).
But fortuitously, he’d brought in three people who’d worked on the original SQLite, “and that was sort of the beginning.”
It helped fund the SQLite Consortium, which Hipp said is “a way of funding the project and getting more people involved to guarantee that it was going to be available long term.”
Back in the year 2000, Hipp was working for Bath Iron Works, a shipbuilding subsidiary of defense contractor General Dynamics, and was building software for a Navy destroyer (the USS Oscar Austin).
But fortuitously, he’d brought in three people who’d worked on the original SQLite, “and that was sort of the beginning.”
It helped fund the SQLite Consortium, which Hipp said is “a way of funding the project and getting more people involved to guarantee that it was going to be available long term.”
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