Friday, January 01, 2021

SQLite As An Application File Format

 SQLite As An Application File Format

"An SQLite database file with a defined schema often makes an excellent application file format. Here are a dozen reasons why this is so:

  1. Simplified Application Development
  2. Single-File Documents
  3. High-Level Query Language
  4. Accessible Content
  5. Cross-Platform
  6. Atomic Transactions
  7. Incremental And Continuous Updates
  8. Easily Extensible
  9. Performance
  10. Concurrent Use By Multiple Processes
  11. Multiple Programming Languages
  12. Better Applications

Each of these points will be described in more detail below, after first considering more closely the meaning of "application file format". "

Episode #212 SQLite as a file format (like docx) - [Python Bytes Podcast]