Adobe Joins the SQLite Consortium
Adobe has joined with Mozilla and Symbian to support the work of the SQLite Consortium to help ensure free, open access and development of SQLite.
The SQLite Consortium is a group of companies that use SQLite in their products and who have banded together to help insure
that the SQLite Developers have funding to continue enhancing
and improving SQLite and so insure that the SQLite Developers
remain independent and free to act in the best interests of
the community.
Adobe recognizes the importance of providing support for technology and tools that are open source because of its value to the entire developer community. By supporting the work of the SQLite consortium, Adobe is supporting the continued growth and improvements in SQLite.
SQLite is a different concept in SQL databases and is intended for non-traditional roles. SQLite is serverless – it writes directly to ordinary disk file, and SQLite is designed to require no maintenance or administration. And SQLite powers a heck of a lot of products, from Adobe and from others.
Adobe’s support of the SQLite Consortium demonstrates Adobe’s commitment to open source, and belief that technologies such as SQLite should remain independent and free in the best interests of the community.
Adobe’s commitment to SQLite strengthens the validity of SQLite. Over the years I have seen SQLite criticized for various reasons, mostly because it was unknown. However I used it successfully in two gigs and it was a smashing success for the project and for me. For using SQLite, I got tremendous productivity benefits in each of the gigs. However, a lot of organizations building “embedded” applications continue to use the Berkeley DB, in spite of the fact that the Berkeley DB does not have as rich a query language, has a large data and code footprint, and doesn’t quite implement ACID. With big companies such as Adobe, Mozilla, Symbian, Apple and Google publicly using SQLite, maybe folks will start to believe that you can get productivity, robustness and freedom in a free database that far exceeds that of the Berkeley DB. This in itself will make applications faster to develop, faster to run, and deliver with higher quality. Way to go Adobe!