SQLite As An Application File Format
SQLite As An Application File Format
Executive Summary
An SQLite database file with a defined schema often makes an excellent application file format. Here are a dozen reasons why this is so:
- Simplified Application Development
- Single-File Documents
- High-Level Query Language
- Accessible Content
- Cross-Platform
- Atomic Transactions
- Incremental And Continuous Updates
- Easily Extensible
- Performance
- Concurrent Use By Multiple Processes
- Multiple Programming Languages
- Better Applications
Each of these points will be described in more detail below, after first considering more closely the meaning of "application file format". See also the short version of this whitepaper.
What Is An Application File Format?
An "application file format" is the file for
