Re: [sqlite] Most widely deployed?

2008-02-21 Thread Kees Nuyt
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:42:30 -0500, you wrote: >> > > Every copy of Firefox 3 contains a copy of SQLite. >> > And Firefox 2 ;) >> >> Really? What is it used for? >I'm not sure what uses it internally, but it's exposed via >mozIStorageService [1], so add-ons can use it as well! And there's an Fi

Re: [sqlite] Most widely deployed?

2008-02-21 Thread Florian Weimer
* Aristotle Pagaltzis: > * Shawn Wilsher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-02-21 20:00]: >> > Every copy of Firefox 3 contains a copy of SQLite. >> And Firefox 2 ;) > > Really? What is it used for? It's used to store data used by the client-side URL classifier ("phishing filter"). ___

Re: [sqlite] Most widely deployed?

2008-02-21 Thread Toby Roworth
Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: > * Shawn Wilsher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-02-21 20:00]: > >>> Every copy of Firefox 3 contains a copy of SQLite. >>> >> And Firefox 2 ;) >> > > Really? What is it used for? > > Regards, > Apparently it's used for storing profile information in Firefox

Re: [sqlite] Most widely deployed?

2008-02-21 Thread Shawn Wilsher
> > > Every copy of Firefox 3 contains a copy of SQLite. > > And Firefox 2 ;) > > Really? What is it used for? I'm not sure what uses it internally, but it's exposed via mozIStorageService [1], so add-ons can use it as well! Cheers, Shawn [1] http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/mozIStorageSer

Re: [sqlite] Most widely deployed?

2008-02-21 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Shawn Wilsher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-02-21 20:00]: > > Every copy of Firefox 3 contains a copy of SQLite. > And Firefox 2 ;) Really? What is it used for? Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // ___ sqlite-users mailing list sq

Re: [sqlite] Most widely deployed?

2008-02-21 Thread Dennis Cote
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am not privy to the inner workings of Nokia cellphones, but I > believe any non-SQLite databases they are using do not understand > SQL. The other products might still be a database, but they are > not an *SQL* database. > Richard, Perhaps the title of the page s

Re: [sqlite] Most widely deployed?

2008-02-21 Thread drh
Dennis Cote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nokia sold 350 million cell phones last year alone. Each of those phones > probably had some embedded database on them. It may even be SQLite for > all I know, but if it is not, then it substantially increases the number > of non-SQLite database deploym

Re: [sqlite] Most widely deployed?

2008-02-21 Thread Dennis Cote
Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: > > I think the claim is unassailable. > I think you and most others have missed Tony's point. All he is saying is the claim that the all other database installations can be accurately estimated by using a count of the number of websites on the internet may be suspe

Re: [sqlite] Most widely deployed?

2008-02-21 Thread Shawn Wilsher
> I have five different copies of the SQLite code on this computer > alone, I think. Every Mac has several of them. One of the servers > I deploy to has at least 10 copies of it. Every copy of Firefox 3 > contains a copy of SQLite. And Firefox 2 ;) Cheers, Shawn __

Re: [sqlite] Most widely deployed?

2008-02-21 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Toby Roworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-02-20 14:35]: > I'm not sure if this was the right place to post this, but it > would be interesting to hear people's thoughts on the matter. I think the claim is unassailable. I have five different copies of the SQLite code on this computer alone, I think

Re: [sqlite] Most widely deployed?

2008-02-20 Thread Bogdan Eugen Daja
The most important: free, slim, fast, easy to install, works on your pocket :) this is SQLite What I looking for is oracle for ppc but i guess wont get enounght space to install. Toby Roworth wrote: > Bryan Oakley wrote: > >> On Feb 20, 2008 7:41 AM, Toby Roworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [sqlite] Most widely deployed?

2008-02-20 Thread Toby Roworth
Bryan Oakley wrote: > On Feb 20, 2008 7:41 AM, Toby Roworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Oracle has deployment contracts in the govornments of X countries >> worldwide, each having Y department, which have Z number of databases >> each... >> > > I would think the number of MacOSX install

Re: [sqlite] Most widely deployed?

2008-02-20 Thread Bryan Oakley
On Feb 20, 2008 7:41 AM, Toby Roworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oracle has deployment contracts in the govornments of X countries > worldwide, each having Y department, which have Z number of databases > each... I would think the number of MacOSX installations would outnumber the Oracle install

Re: [sqlite] Most widely deployed?

2008-02-20 Thread Toby Roworth
Geoff Lane wrote: > On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 01:41:50PM +, Toby Roworth wrote: > >> I'm not trying to be picky here, or start telling you that you're wrong, >> but it could be worth changing - if an oracle developer (etc) were to >> look at the page, the could potentially have a field day w

Re: [sqlite] Most widely deployed?

2008-02-20 Thread Geoff Lane
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 01:41:50PM +, Toby Roworth wrote: > I'm not trying to be picky here, or start telling you that you're wrong, > but it could be worth changing - if an oracle developer (etc) were to > look at the page, the could potentially have a field day when they can > point out so

[sqlite] Most widely deployed?

2008-02-20 Thread Toby Roworth
I was just reading the page about SQlite being the most widely deployed SQL database engine (http://sqlite.org/mostdeployed.html), and noticed that it does not seem to take into account non-website non-sqlite database engines in the arbitrary 100million other database engines. I'm not trying to