Differences between SQL and SQLite

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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 :

SQLSQLite
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 :

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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.