SQLite is a C library that implements an embeddable SQL database engine.
Programs that link with the SQLite library can have SQL database access
without running a separate RDBMS process. The distribution comes with a
standalone command-line access program (sqlite) that can be used to
administer an SQLite database and which serves as an example of how to
use the SQLite library. SQLite is not a client library used to connect to
a big database server. SQLite is the server. The SQLite library reads and
writes directly to and from the database files on disk.
Note that sqlite3 is not backwards compatible with sqlite2, but they can be
installed in parallel (thus the separate port). ok jolan@
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