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> A self-contained, embeddable, zero-configuration SQL database engine.
The Rebol SQLite database driver uses the library access features of Rebol to provide native Rebol access to SQLite databases.
# What is SQLite?
For detailed information on SQLite, visit their home page [here](http://www.sqlite.org). What's attractive from a Rebol perspective is:
- **Cross platform** - It is written entirely in C, with precompiled binaries available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
- **One library** - The *database engine* is a single, small, drop-in file (`DLL` on Windows, `.so` for others) requiring no special installation or configuration.
- **Public Domain** - The source and binaries are freely available for both commercial and non-commercial use with no restrictions whatsoever.
- **Works well with Rebol** - It's simple and efficient design make it a natural fit for Rebol file-based database storage and access.
- **Fast and powerful** - It provides a fast, full-featured, multi-user RDBMS solution that "works out of the box".
# Features
The SQLite driver provides a simplified wrapper to the SQLite library. Its features include:
- **Works out of the box** - Just add `do %sqlite.r` to your script and you're ready to go.
- **Native Rebol storage** - Your data is stored and accessed as Rebol values which means that you have the full range of Rebol data-types at your fingertips!
- **Plays well** - The half-dozen functions that drive the database behave like any other Rebol function, accepting and returning Rebol values as you would expect.
- **Lock detection** - The driver detects locks and initiates retries on your behalf.
- **Configurable** - Many aspects of the driver's behaviour can be changed/controlled by specifying various refinements when you "connect" to a SQLite database.
# Documentation
> 16-Oct-2011
- [Driver Guide](SQLite/driver-guide.html) - Describes the design and operation of the SQLite Driver.
- [User Guide](SQLite/user-guide.html) - Describes the use of SQL & the DB access functions.
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