Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderSQLite is a wonderful database. We use it in production many times over for all of our clients. Not having to worry about whatever arbitrary SQL Server installation is available in a particular environment has saved us so much time and frustration. Combine SQLite with .NET Self-Contained Deployments means that we (our automated tools) now copy our software distribution zip to target, extract to path, run executable as administrator and walk away. Without SQLite we could not do this. Migrations…
One reason it succeeded is because of Android. Once it was one a kazillion android devices a lot of the bugs got shaken out. > Richard: We were going around boasting to everybody naively that SQLite didn’t have any bugs in it, or no serious bugs, but Android definitely proved us wrong. Look, I used to think that I could write software with no bugs in it. It’s amazing how many bugs will crop up when your software suddenly gets…
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 731
- Total comments
- 366
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-03-22 | Why SQLite Succeeded as a Database with Richard Hipp | sconxu | 3 | 0 |
| 2019-08-15 | Why SQLite succeeded as a database (2016) | Tomte | 4 | 0 |
| 2020-02-19 | Why SQLite succeeded as a database (2016)First breakout · Best thread | Tomte | 589 | 281 |
| 2021-05-21 | Interview with Richard Hipp, creator of SQLite (2016) | breck | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-05-29 | Why SQLite succeeded as a database (2016) | Tomte | 2 | 0 |
| 2023-01-05 | Why SQLite succeeded as a database (2016)Latest 20+ point return | Tomte | 128 | 85 |
| 2026-06-09 | Why SQLite succeeded as a database (2016) | downbad_ | 3 | 0 |