OK, here is merciless. The grammar police. Starting a sentence with 'There' is not proper. I suggest the following
Rewrite: /There are likely more copies of SQLite in use than all other database engines combined./ As: More copies of SQLite are in use than all other databases combined. Rewrite: /There are billions and billions of copies of SQLite in the wild./ As: Billions and billions of SQLite copies are in the wild. Rewrite: There may be more instance of libc in use than SQLite. As: More instances of libc may be in use than SQLite. hmm, not sure I agree with that statement. The point of the following should be first followed by the explanation. Rewrite: But libc is not a single software component, but rather several competing implementations (ex: BSD vs. GNU) with similar interfaces. No one implementation has nearly the reach of SQLite. As: However, No implementation of libc has the reach of SQLite. Several competing implementations of libc exist with similar interfaces (e.g. BSD vs. GNU), SQLite has one. Rewrite: There are probably far more deployments of SQLite than there are of Linux. SQLite is used on every Android device, which accounts for the bulk of Linux uses. And SQLite is probably on most Linux desktops since it is part of Chrome and Firefox. Many Linux servers have a copy of SQLite by virtue of running PHP or Python. Some fraction of Linux servers may omit SQLite, but that fraction is far smaller than the number of iPhones, and so SQLite still comes out numerically superior. As: SQLite has more deployments than Linux. Every Android device uses SQLite. Since SQLite is part of Chrome and Firefox, SQLite is probably on most Linux Desktops. Many Linux servers, By virtue of running PHP or Python use SQLite. I suggest dropping the last sentence about a fraction of linux servers. Rewrite: There are more deployments of SQLite than there are of Apple products since SQLite is used in every Apple product and hence SQLite deployments are a superset of Apple products sold. As: SQLite has more deployments than Apple products since all Apple products use SQLite. ------------ Scott Doctor scott at scottdoctor.com On 5/3/2015 1:32 PM, Richard Hipp wrote: > On 5/3/15, 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)... > I invite merciless criticism of the draft revision at > (https://www.sqlite.org/draft/mostdeployed.html). This is part of the > SQLite "sales pitch", so I want SQLite to look good, but I don't want > to overstate the case.
