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		rarrrrrr on Aug 26, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SQLite: A Lesson In Low-Defect Software (review/su... SQLite is used by OS X Mail, Firefox, and plenty of other widely deployed apps. With that many users, even the most obscure branches get exercised. Finding the bugs through internal testing is a better life than reading end user trouble tickets all day.

gaius on Aug 26, 2009 [–]

Yep, it is by a considerable margin the most popular open source database in the world, despite what the MySQL might crowd claim.

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