SQLite Quick Facts

About Quick Facts Tables

Format Type Identifier

SQLITE3

Reader/Writer

Both

Licensing Level

Base

Dependencies

None

Dataset Type

File

Feature Type

Table name

Typical File Extensions

.sqlite, .sqlite3, .db, .sl3

Note that .db and .sl3 are equivalent; however, the .db filename extension is more commonly used. These filename extensions are not exclusive to the SQLite 3 format.

Automated Translation Support

Yes

User-Defined Attributes

Yes

Coordinate System Support

No

Generic Color Support

No

Spatial Index

Never

Schema Required

Yes

Transaction Support

Yes

Encoding Support

Yes

Geometry Type

db_none

SQLite Geometry Support

Geometry

Supported?

aggregate

no

circles

no

circular arc

no

donut polygon

no

elliptical arc

no

ellipses

no

line

no

none

yes

point

no

polygon

no

raster

no

solid

no

surface

no

text

no

z values

n/a