This week we talked with Richard Hipp, the creator of SQLite, about its history, where it came from, why it succeeded as a database, how it’s development is sustainably funded, and how it’s the most widely deployed database engine in the world.
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Show notes and links
Home Page for D. Richard Hipp
SQLite Home Page
GDBM
fopen(3) – Linux manual page
Bruce Perens – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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