Re:What If OpenDocument Used SQLite?
by yellowapple on Thursday November 02, 2017 @02:35PM
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"Any OS comes with a text editor and a ZIP utility by default now."
The same thing is becoming true of SQLite (and pretty much is true if you exclude older versions of Windows). We're talking about one of the two (estimated) most-widely-deployed software projects in the world today (http://sqlite.org/mostdeployed.html). It's FOSS, ubiquitous, easily embeddable, works remarkably well, and has bindings for pretty much every programming language under the sun. As far as a general-purpose file format goes, a SQLite database is thus pretty close to ideal.
The same thing is becoming true of SQLite (and pretty much is true if you exclude older versions of Windows). We're talking about one of the two (estimated) most-widely-deployed software projects in the world today (http://sqlite.org/mostdeployed.html). It's FOSS, ubiquitous, easily embeddable, works remarkably well, and has bindings for pretty much every programming language under the sun. As far as a general-purpose file format goes, a SQLite database is thus pretty close to ideal.