alt Hacker NewsIn other words, they are creating their own database and hitching on to the SQLite brand to market it. (That's fine though).
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IshKebab • yesterday at 6:36 PM
No that's completely incorrect. It's compatible with SQLite, not just in the same spirit:
> SQLite compatibility for SQL dialect, file formats, and the C API
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shimman • today at 1:24 AM
I don't think that's fine at all, it's quite a shitty thing to do hoenstly and I'm not surprised it's a VC backed company doing it.
I think it's fair to say they tried using SQLite but apparently had to bail out. Their use case is a distributed DBaaS with local-first semantics, they started out with SQLite and only now seem to be pivoting to "SQLite-compatible".
Building off of that into a SQLite-compatible DB doesn't seem to me as trying to piggyback on the brand. They have no other option as their product was SQLite to begin with.