SQLite is a fast and compact relational database supported across many platforms (including tablets).
The SQLite web page at https://sqlite.org/ says:
“SQLite is a software library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine. SQLite is the most widely deployed SQL database engine in the world. The source code for SQLite is in the public domain.”
Which says it all.
In many ways it is the first choice for a database in any circumstance where professional management is not required and where network latency is unlikely to become an issue. One of the benefits of using a relational database as an application file format (and there are more than several) is that you can access the data easily from a generic tool. Which brings me to SQLite administration tools.
I have used the excellent SQLiteAdmin tool http://sqliteadmin.orbmu2k.de/ for a long time. However I just hit a snag – this tool does not seem to support Unicode – while SQLite does (of course). I needed to add some Greek and Bulgarian characters to a data set and I could nor persuade SQLiteAdmin to import a Unicode encoded CSV file with them included.
The SQLiteAdmin web page is dated 2006 although the download zip file content is dated October 2007. I did look at the program source location (www.orbmu2k.de) mentioned on the web page but could not locate the code – so tweaking things to support Unicode (and Unicode filestreams) looked like a non-starter. The English language support forum link is also dead.
I turned up an alternative tool that seems to be delivering what I need however. SQLite Browser on github is an active project https://github.com/sqlitebrowser/sqlitebrowser . So far, this tool seems to deliver all I require. Recommended and available for Windows, MacOSX, Linux and FreeBSD.
The SQLite web page at https://sqlite.org/ says:
“SQLite is a software library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine. SQLite is the most widely deployed SQL database engine in the world. The source code for SQLite is in the public domain.”
Which says it all.
In many ways it is the first choice for a database in any circumstance where professional management is not required and where network latency is unlikely to become an issue. One of the benefits of using a relational database as an application file format (and there are more than several) is that you can access the data easily from a generic tool. Which brings me to SQLite administration tools.
I have used the excellent SQLiteAdmin tool http://sqliteadmin.orbmu2k.de/ for a long time. However I just hit a snag – this tool does not seem to support Unicode – while SQLite does (of course). I needed to add some Greek and Bulgarian characters to a data set and I could nor persuade SQLiteAdmin to import a Unicode encoded CSV file with them included.
The SQLiteAdmin web page is dated 2006 although the download zip file content is dated October 2007. I did look at the program source location (www.orbmu2k.de) mentioned on the web page but could not locate the code – so tweaking things to support Unicode (and Unicode filestreams) looked like a non-starter. The English language support forum link is also dead.
I turned up an alternative tool that seems to be delivering what I need however. SQLite Browser on github is an active project https://github.com/sqlitebrowser/sqlitebrowser . So far, this tool seems to deliver all I require. Recommended and available for Windows, MacOSX, Linux and FreeBSD.
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