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Re:What’s so exciting about Postgres? by bachmeier on Friday October 30, 2020 @07:43PM (#24947893)
> Think of SQLite not as a replacement for Oracle but as a replacement for fopen().

https://sqlite.org/about.html

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Re:What’s so exciting about Postgres? by Koshkin on Friday October 30, 2020 @08:56PM (#24948213)
Well sure, it’s better be thought of as a replacement for fopen() than one for Oracle. (Unless you were thinking of buying Oracle in order to use it on your desktop.) An even better way would be to compare it with MS Access, for example.
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