Why the KeePass format should be based on SQLite

Re:Why the KeePass format should be based on SQLite by KeePassium on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @04:06PM (#47157860)

As for autofill memory limitations, this is largely an implementation detail: just process data stream in small chunks, that's it.

Unfortunately, KeePassium's data layer was designed in the times of iOS 11, before AutoFill became a thing. So I chose the easier path of loading and processing the whole file at once. This made sense for 10-20 MB databases on iPhones with 2 GB of RAM. By the time the mistake became obvious, it was much harder to switch to streamed processing, especially with a long queue of lower-hanging feature requests.

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Re:Why the KeePass format should be based on SQLite by wps on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @04:33PM (#47158204)

This class of mistake could have been wholly avoided if the format was SQLite based because there is no assumption that everything must be loaded into memory. Of course I defer expertise to you, but I've had a far better time with SQLite than I've ever had with XML parsing (OFX/QBO still bother me...)

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