{"id":10600,"date":"2011-07-28T11:24:24","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T11:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/sqlite\/"},"modified":"2011-08-18T17:21:32","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T17:21:32","slug":"sqlite","status":"publish","type":"definition","link":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/24610\/sqlite","title":{"rendered":"SQLite"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span id=\"what_does_sqlite_mean\">What Does SQLite Mean?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>SQLite is an in-process library that implements a self-contained, zero-configuration, serverless, transactional SQL database engine. The source code for SQLite exists in the public domain and is free for both private and commercial purposes.<\/p>\n<p>SQLite has bindings to several programming languages such as C, C++, BASIC, C#, Python, Java and Delphi. The COM (ActiveX) wrapper makes SQLite accessible to scripted languages on Windows such as VB Script and JavaScript, thus adding capabilities to HTML applications. 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