The Command Line Interface or "CLI" is a simple command-line program that accepts SQL input text and passes it through to the SQLite database engine core to be executed.
1.1. SQLite command-line program versus the SQLite library The SQLite library is code that implements an SQL database engine. The "sqlite3" command-line program or "CLI" is an application that accepts user input and passes it down into the SQLite library for evaluation. Understand that these are two different things. When somebody says "SQLite" or "sqlite3" they might be referring to either ...
Don't be afraid of using your chosen database's command-line client. I might as well say this up front: I don't like using GUI (aka non-command-line or graphical) tools with my databases. This is ...
SQLite is not directly comparable to client/server SQL database engines such as MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server since SQLite is trying to solve a different problem. Client/server SQL database engines strive to implement a shared repository of enterprise data. They emphasize scalability, concurrency, centralization, and control. SQLite strives to provide local data storage for ...
SQLite is a C-language library that implements a small, fast, self-contained, high-reliability, full-featured, SQL database engine. SQLite is the most used database engine in the world. SQLite is built into all mobile phones and most computers and comes bundled inside countless other applications that people use every day. More Information...
See the How To Compile SQLite page for additional information on how to use the raw SQLite source code. Note that a recent version of Tcl is required in order to build from the repository sources.