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SQLite

Every number here is named for what it counts. How each one is measured is on the methodology page.

Fig. 1
SQLite's share of Hacker News and Lobsters stories, by month
00.511.5AprMayJunJulAugSept
SQLite%

Distinct stories naming the tool, as a percentage of all stories naming any tracked tool. Complete months only.

Fig. 2
New GitHub repos a week: sqlite
05001000150020006 Jul20 Jul10 Aug31 Aug14 Sept28 Sept19 Oct
sqlite

Each week's median of the daily snapshots, so one glitched snapshot cannot move the line. Complete weeks only.

Job ads naming it, by week

Postings in Adzuna's UK IT feed and on RemoteOK whose title or description names SQLite. Small counts: read the direction, not the rate.

  1. 10 Aug 0
  2. 17 Aug 0
  3. 24 Aug 0
  4. 31 Aug 0
  5. 7 Sept 0
  6. 14 Sept 0
  7. 21 Sept 0
  8. 28 Sept 0
  9. 5 Oct 0
  10. 12 Oct 0
  11. 19 Oct 0
  12. 26 Oct 0

Biggest stories, last 90 days

  1. Tracking down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug1.2K pts · 229 comments · 12 Aug
  2. SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop?723 pts · 372 comments · 3 Aug
  3. Executable Is a SQLite Database552 pts · 107 comments · 24 Aug
  4. Twelve years of distributed SQLite382 pts · 66 comments · 24 Oct
  5. Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite379 pts · 167 comments · 15 Sept
  6. SQLite as a Document Database (2020)252 pts · 57 comments · 24 Aug
  7. Show HN: LatticeDB – Like SQLite but for graph databases189 pts · 54 comments · 25 Aug
  8. Show HN: Engrim – A universal, local-first SQLite memory engine for AI CLIs91 pts · 53 comments · 7 Sept

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