Why SQLite succeeded as a database (Changelog Interviews #201)
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SQLite's Technical Merits
The type system that's very different is the type system that we use. Just because you've declared a column of a table to be text, doesn't mean you can't put an integer in there. And this takes a lot of people by surprise. People have criticized SQLite about this. They say it's weakly typed and the systems are strongly typed. I think those are purgative terms. But it's a pretty system.
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