Someone recently observed that SQLite would be used a lot more in production if it didn't have the word "lite" in its name. I've personally been amazed by what it can do. Really great piece of tech with an unfortunate name.
That may be so. But just because someone is the creator doesn't mean they have control over how people use the name.
Case in point:
Blue Origin wants people to refer to it by the nickname "Blue". But you kind of have to be in the industry to know that. Everyone else just uses the initialism instead, which is most commonly used to abbreviate "body odor".
On a related topic, anyone have an idea of the breakdown of people that say Sequel vs S.Q.L. and are there people that look down on others for their usage? Of course ignoring the opinion of anyone that says Jif.
Yes but you don't get the namer's intent beamed into your brain when you see or hear a word for the first time. To me and a lot of other people it's pretty clearly sql-lite regardless of what the namer wants it to be. Maybe this makes me stupid or whatever but when naming things you also have to account for my stupidity because I share it with a lot of other people.
The macbook I'm typing this on has 113 sqlite databases open right now. I'd call that a lot of deployment. The name doesn't seem to have held sqlite back much!
To blame unconscious bias over a suffix as a non-trivial force on adoption is silly when there are plenty of valid technical constraints for adoption of SQLite in many projects.
IMO database names are incredibly bland, outside of Cockroachdb, and not a driving factor to adoption given the critical nature of the decision.
srcreigh|3 years ago
The creator says it like Escue Ell-ite emphasis on the Es- and -ite. [0]
https://youtu.be/Jib2AmRb_rk?t=99
nordsieck|3 years ago
Case in point:
Blue Origin wants people to refer to it by the nickname "Blue". But you kind of have to be in the industry to know that. Everyone else just uses the initialism instead, which is most commonly used to abbreviate "body odor".
83457|3 years ago
On a related topic, anyone have an idea of the breakdown of people that say Sequel vs S.Q.L. and are there people that look down on others for their usage? Of course ignoring the opinion of anyone that says Jif.
giraffe_lady|3 years ago
benbjohnson|3 years ago
sbierwagen|3 years ago
jef_leppard|3 years ago
pjscott|3 years ago
The macbook I'm typing this on has 113 sqlite databases open right now. I'd call that a lot of deployment. The name doesn't seem to have held sqlite back much!
efdb|3 years ago
samatman|3 years ago
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haimez|3 years ago
tmpz22|3 years ago
IMO database names are incredibly bland, outside of Cockroachdb, and not a driving factor to adoption given the critical nature of the decision.