"Server-free"? It's reasonably close to serverless, but doesn't have the conflicting meaning.
Jen On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 05:18:45PM -0500, Richard Hipp wrote: > For many years I have described SQLite as being "serverless", as a way > to distinguish it from the more traditional client/server design of > RDBMSes. "Serverless" seemed like the natural term to use, as it > seems to mean "without a server". > > But more recently, "serverless" has become a popular buzz-word that > means "managed by my hosting provider rather than by me." Many > readers have internalized this new marketing-driven meaning for > "serverless" and are hence confused when they see my claim that > "SQLite is serverless". > > How can I fix this? What alternative word can I use in place of > "serverless" to mean "without a server"? > > Note that "in-process" and "embedded" are not adequate substitutes for > "serverless". An RDBMS might be in-process or embedded but still be > running a server in a separate thread. In fact, that is how most > embedded RDBMSes other than SQLite work, if I am not much mistaken. > > When I say "serverless" I mean that the application invokes a > function, that function performs some task on behalf of the > application, then the function returns, *and that is all*. No threads > are left over, running in the background to do housekeeping. The > function does send messages to some other thread or process. The > function does not have an event loop. The function does not have its > own stack. The function (with its subfunctions) does all the work > itself, using the callers stack, then returns control to the caller. > > So what do I call this, if I can no longer use the word "serverless" > without confusing people? > > "no-server"? > "sans-server"? > "stackless"? > "non-client/server"? > > > -- > D. Richard Hipp > d...@sqlite.org > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org > http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
