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Bloomberg [1] uses SQLite in a custom distributed RDBMS engine of theirs in a way I lack the knowledge to completely understand its design.

I remember Richard Hipp mentioning Bloomberg in one of his interviews (don't ask me which one, I don't remember), that they use SQLite to serve billions of bank transaction on a daily basis without a problem.

  [1] https://github.com/bloomberg/comdb2
Update: I have found the following paper that describes the engine in greater detail: http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol9/p1377-scotti.pdf


SQLite has been used on top of a lot of things, including FoundationDB (https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/architecture.html).

That's different than using the DB directly though.


That is what "foundational" means.


After reading the paper, I see that it is not built on top of SQLite, but shares some components with SQLite.




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