On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Richard Hipp <drh at sqlite.org> wrote:
> I'm trying to update the "Most Deployed Database" page > (https://www.sqlite.org/mostdeployed.html) in the SQLite documentation > (which has not been touched in close to a decade) and I began to > wonder what other software libraries (database or otherwise) might be > deployed more than SQLite. SQLite is in a lot of things. My > conjecture is that SQLite is in the top-10 most deployed software > components in the world today. Check my work, please. SQLite is in: > {snipped} But just from the list above, there are not too many > computing devices that omit SQLite. I'm wonder what other software > components have a greater reach? > > The original Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler implementation of the > zlib compression library might be deployed more. Anything else? > > What about libjpeg and libpng? I think there might be multiple > independent implementations of libjpeg in circulation, but I am > unclear on that point - perhaps a reader more knowledgable about this > can correct me. What about libpng? Is there just the one original > libpng library used everywhere, or are there competing > implementations? > Obviously this is just guess work, but I would tend to give the edge to SQLite for one reason: It is statically linked into so many programs by design, whereas the others are (arguably) more often dynamically linked / shared objects. -- Scott Robison
