Differences between SQL and SQLite
- Structured Query Language (SQL): SQL stands for Structured Query Language. SQL can access, created, and manage databases. SQL has become the standard of the American National Standards Institute.
- SQLite: SQLite is software that provides a relational database management system. SQLite is lightweight in terms of setup, database administration, and required resources. SQLite has features like self-contained, server-less, zero-configuration, etc.
- MariaDB: MariaDB is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS) that is a compatible drop-in replacement for the widely used MySQL database technology. It is developed by MariaDB Foundation and was initially released on 29 October 2009. MariaDB has a significantly high number of new features, which makes it better in terms of performance and user orientation than MySQL.
Differences between SQL and SQLite :
| SQL | SQLite |
|---|---|
| SQL is Structured Query Language used to query Relational Database System. It is written in C language. | SQLite is an Relational Database Management System which is written in ANSI-C. |
| SQL is standard which specifies how relational schema is created, data is inserted or updated in relations, transactions are started and stopped, etc. | SQLite is file-based. It is different from other SQL databases because unlike most other SQL databases, SQLite does not have separate server process. |
| Main components of SQL are Data Definition Language(DDL), Data Manipulation Language(DML), Data Control Language(DCL). | SQLite supports many features of SQL and has high performance but does not support stored procedures. |
| SQL is Structured Query Language which is used with databases like MySQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2, etc. | SQLite is portable database resource. It could get an extension in whatever programming language used to access that database. |
| A conventional SQL database needs to be running as service like OracleDB to connect to and provide lot of functionalities. | SQLite database system does not provide such functionalities. |
| SQL is query language which is used by other SQL databases. It is not database itself. | SQLite is relational database management system itself which uses SQL. |
Difference between SQLite and MariaDB :
| S.NO. | SQLITE | MARIADB |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Developed by D. Richard Hipp on August 2000. | Developed by MariaDB Corporation Ab and MariaDB Foundation on 2009. |
| 2. | It is widely used in-process RDBMS. | It is a MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. |
| 3. | SQLite is written in C language. | MariaDB is written in C, C++, Perl and Bash languages. |
| 4. | The primary database model for SQLite is Relational DBMS. | Also the primary database model for MariaDB is Relational DBMS. |
| 5. | It has no Secondary database models. | It has two Secondary database models – Document store and Graph DBMS. |
| 6. | SQLite does not require a server to run. Hence, it is serverless. | Server operating systems for MariaDB are FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris and Windows. |
| 7. | It does not supports XML format. | It supports XML format. |
| 8. | It does not supports Server-side scripting. | It supports Server-side scripting. |
| 9. | It does not support any replication methods. | It support two replication methods – Master-master replication and Master-slave replication. |
| 10. | It does not support any Partitioning method. | Supported Partitioning method are – Horizontal partitioning, sharding with Spider storage engine and Galera cluster. |
| 11. | It does not provide a replacement for MariaDB. | It provides a drop-in replacement for SQLite. |