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• SQLite (web: sqlite.org) by D. Richard Hipp et al
  • Versions / Release History
    • 2013: 3.8.0 (Aug/26)
    • 2010: 3.7.0 (Jul/22)
  • Talk - sqlite-users mailing list

Articles

• SQLite As An Application File Format
• In-Memory Databases

• Article: SQLite @ Wikipedia

• The Definitive Guide to SQLite (2nd Edition) - by Mike Owens and Grant Allen; 2010; Apress; 368 pages
• Using SQLite - by Jay A. Kreibich; 2010, O'Reilly; 530 pages
• Getting Started with SQL - A Hands-On Approach for Beginners - by Thomas Nield; 2016; O'Reilly; 134 pages -- learn SQL with SQLite and SQLiteStudio

• sqlean (github: https://github.com/nalgeon/sqlean) by nalgeon
• Text File Reader for SQLite (TFR4SQLite) (github: elau1004/TFR4SQLite) by Edward Lau -- read any structured text file according to your parsing spec into SQLite

• sql.js (github: sql-js/sql.js) -- SQLite compiled to JavaScript (using asm.js) through Emscripten

Talks

• Inside Punkbase - SQLite (SQL.js) In Action

Breaking News

SQLite Gets Offical "First-Class" WebAssembly & JavaScript Support

see sqlite.org/wasm»

Announced in October 2022 the about page reads:

About the sqlite3 WASM/JS Subproject WebAssembly, a.k.a. WASM, is a standard defining a low-level programming language suitable (A) as a target for cross-compilation from many other languages and (B) for running via a virtual machine in a browser. Designed with scriptability via JavaScript in mind, it provides a way to compile C code (among others) to WASM and script it via JavaScript with relatively little friction despite the vast differences between JavaScript and C.

Folks have been building sqlite3 for the web since as far back as 2012 but this subproject is the first effort "officially" associated with the SQLite project, created with the goal of making WASM builds of the library first-class members of the family of supported SQLite deliverables.

• rqlite (github: rqlite/rqlite) by Philip O'Toole et al -- The lightweight, distributed relational database built on SQLite

Microsoft ODBC

• SQLite ODBC Driver - coded by Christian Werner

Java JDBC

• SQLite JDBC Driver (sqlite.jar) - a Java wrapper includes a basic JDBC driver for SQLite; coded by Christian Werner
• SQLite JDBC Driver (sqlite-jdbc.jar) - a library for accessing SQLite databases through the JDBC API; coded by Taro L. Saito

R Language

• RSQLite (github: rstats-db/RSQLite, cran: RSQLite) -- SQLite interface for R

Ruby

• sqlite3 (github: sparklemotion/sqlite3-ruby, gem: sqlite3) -- SQLite interface for Ruby

Microsoft .NET

• System.Data.SQLite (web: system.data.sqlite.org) -- a SQLite ActiveX Data Objects (ADO).NET driver with Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) and Entity Framework support; official support by SQLite HQ

Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)

• SQLite for Excel (codeplex: sqliteforexcel) -- SQLite wrapper for VBA

Swift

• Lighter.swift (github: lighter-swift/lighter, pkg: Lighter) -- SQLite code generator and db packager for Swift

and many more

• sqlite-web ★217 (github: coleifer/sqlite-web) by Charles Leifer -- a web-based SQLite database browser written in Python
• sqliteweb ★46 (github: hypebeast/sqliteweb) by Sebastian Ruml -- a web-based SQLite database browser written in Go
• phpliteadmin ★31 (web: phpliteadmin.org, github: phpLiteAdmin/pla) -- a web-based SQLite database admin tool written in PHP
• web gui for sqlite (web: extendsclass.com, github: hautdefrance/Web-GUI-for-SQLite by Cyril Bois -- a web-based SQLite database browser written in JavaScript
• SQLite Hub ★4 (web: sqlite-hub, github: oliverjessner/sqlite-hub) -- a web-based SQLite database browser written in NodeJS
• LiteAdmin (github: martijndeb/liteadmin) -- a web-based SQLite administration tool written in dependency free PHP
• LibreDB Studio ★135 (web: libredb.org, github: libredb/libredb-studio) -- a web-based SQL IDE written in TypeScript, covering SQLite alongside nine other engines

Major

• SQLiteStudio (web: sqlitestudio.pl) - Linux, Windows, Mac OS X
• DB Browser for SQLite ★3,718 (web: sqlitebrowser.org, github: sqlitebrowser/sqlitebrowser) -- formerly known as SQLite Database Browser
• SQLite Toolbox (codeplex: [sqlcetoolbox] (http://sqlcetoolbox.codeplex.com)) -- Visual Studio extension (add-in); coded by Erik Ejlskov Jensen
• DataStation - Easily query, script, and visualize data from every database, file, and API.
• DBTool - Free and open-source desktop client for SQLite and five other engines, with a visual query builder, a schema designer and an editable results grid. Linux, Windows, macOS.
• SQLTorrent - Sqltorrent is a custom VFS for sqlite which allows applications to query an sqlite database contained within a torrent.

A spatial SQLite extension for vector geodata functionality

• SpatiaLite
  • libspatialite
  • SpatiaLite Command Line Tools
  • SpatiaLite Admin Tool
• Article: SpatiaLite @ Wikipedia

• datapak (github: textkit/datapak, gem: datapak) -- Ruby tool and library for working with tabular data packages (.csv files w/ .json) using SQLite (via ActiveRecord)
• q command line tool (github: harelba/q -- Python script; lets you run SQL directly on CSV files
• csvs-to-sqlite (github: simonw/csvs-to-sqlite, pypi: csvs-to-sqlite) -- Python command-line tool for loading one or more CSV files and converting them into a SQLite database

• pg2sqlite (codeberg: louis77/pg2sqlite) -- Go command-line tool for automatically migrating tables from PostgreSQL to SQLite incl. generating DDL

• Corgi VIN Decoder (github: cardog-ai/corgi) -- Vehicle identification decoder using heavily optimized SQLite database. Reduced NHTSA's 1.5GB dataset to 21MB with 100x performance improvement.
• R-Mem (github: Adaimade/R-Mem) -- Lightweight Rust AI memory system using SQLite for both vector storage (cosine similarity) and graph storage. Reimplements mem0's architecture in ~1,748 lines.
• BrainDB (github: beckfexx/BrainDB) -- Local-first AI memory and multi-agent orchestrator using SQLite with FTS5 for hybrid search. 110 REST endpoints, 51 MCP tools, knowledge graph, self-learning. TypeScript/Bun.
• KubeStellar Console (github: kubestellar/console) -- Multi-cluster Kubernetes dashboard using SQLite WASM in a Web Worker for persistent client-side caching. SWR pattern with IndexedDB fallback, keeping structured query performance off the main thread for real-time observability across edge and cloud clusters. Go/TypeScript.

• R-Package sqldf (github: ggrothendieck/sqldf, cran: sqldf) -- perform SQL selects on R data frames
• cr-sqlite (github: vlcn-io/cr-sqlite) - Convergent, Replicated, SQLite
• litestream (github: benbjohnson/litestream) - Streaming replication for SQLite
• HA (github: litesql/ha) - High Available SQLite cluster
• silentdrop (github: sravan27/silentdrop) -- zero-dep MIT TypeScript correctness checker for JS implementations of SQLite operators (upper/lower ASCII vs Unicode fold, length/substr code-points vs UTF-16 code units, integer overflow). Catches the silent-wrong-row class found shipping eight fixes to PowerSync sync-rules and four other JS DBs.
• sqliteproof (github: OrbitalKeyAi/sqliteproof) -- zero-dependency MIT integrity checker that reports damage per table rather than per page; PRAGMA integrity_check answers with page numbers, this answers with which tables are intact, how many rows are unreadable, and where each damaged table breaks. Opens the database read-only.

• schemadoc (github: rubylibs/schemadoc, gem: schemadoc) -- documents your database schemas (tables, columns, etc.); uses SQLite (via ActiveRecord)
• sqleton (github: inukshuk/sqleton) by Sylvester Keil -- ['skelɪtən]; visualizes your SQLite database schema (requires graphviz)

Ready-to-Use (Instant) Database Schemas

• football.db (github: openfootball/schema.sql) - teams, competitions, seasons, matches, goals, rounds, groups, etc.
• beer.db (github: openbeer/schema.sql) - beer, brand, brewery, etc.
• Chinook Database (codeplex: chinookdatabase), (chinook.sqlite Download) - online music store (artists, albums, genres, playlists, media tracks, customers, invoices, employees) with sample data; inspired by the "classic" Microsoft Northwind database
• Northwind.db (github: jpwhite3/northwind-SQLite3, Swift pkg: NorthwindSQLite.swift) - food store (customers, products, orders, employees, suppliers, ...) with sample data; port of the "classic" Microsoft Northwind database

Turn your Database into Ready-to-Use (Instant) Online Web Services (JSON APIs) w/ Query Language (QL)

• Datasette (github: simonw/datasette) by Simon Willison - an instant JSON API for your SQLite databases
• SQLPage (github: lovasoa/sqlpage) - build dynamic websites entirely in SQL on top of SQLite databases

License

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