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SQLite is likely used more than all other database engines combined


. Billions and billions of copies of SQLite exist in the wild.

Every Android device Every iPhone and iOS device Every Mac Every Windows10 machine Every Firefox, Chrome, and Safari web browser Every instance of Skype Every instance of iTunes Every Dropbox client Every TurboTax and QuickBooks PHP and Python Most television sets and set-top cable boxes Most automotive multimedia systems Countless millions of other applications Precise numbers are difficult to obtain and so exact rankings are impossible. But our best guess is that SQLite is the second mostly widely deployed software library, after libz.

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