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Re:Show HN: JSONlite – A simple, serverless, zero-configurat... by dchest on Sunday February 12, 2017 @11:57AM (#13629176)
No, serverless database is not a recent buzz word, but a term frequently used to describe DB that doesn't need a separate server running to which clients connect: compare MySQL, PostgreSQL against BDB, LMDB, SQLite.
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Re:Show HN: JSONlite – A simple, serverless, zero-configurat... by camus2 on Sunday February 12, 2017 @01:44PM (#13629796)
"serverless" means so many things it really means nothing, that's like "cloud computing" and that's the definition of a buzzword. Sqlite is an embedded database and has nothing to do with your favorite buzzword.
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Re:Show HN: JSONlite – A simple, serverless, zero-configurat... by dchest on Sunday February 12, 2017 @01:53PM (#13629853)
Richard Hipp called SQLite "serverless" long before you started trying to be cool by hating buzzwords https://sqlite.org/serverless.html
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Re:Show HN: JSONlite – A simple, serverless, zero-configurat... by evanweaver on Sunday February 12, 2017 @12:18PM (#13629294)
In my communities we called the library-style dbs "embedded". I've seen serverless used in this way but it didn't seem common.
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Re:Show HN: JSONlite – A simple, serverless, zero-configurat... by dchest on Sunday February 12, 2017 @01:43PM (#13629789)
Not every serverless database is embedded, but most of them - those that are also called "database library" are. Some examples of DBs that are both embedded and call themselves serverless:

- SQLite: https://sqlite.org/serverless.html

- UnQlite: https://www.unqlite.org/features.html#serverless

Serverless is used to highlight this specific property of them. The OP's database is NOT embedded, but it is serverless.

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