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SpatiaLite is an <b>open source</b> library intended to extend basic <a href="http://www.sqlite.org/">SQLite</a> core in order to support full fledged Spatial SQL capabilities.<br>
SQLite is intrinsically simple and lighweight:<ul>
<li>a single ligthweight library implementing the full SQL engine</li>
<li>standard SQL implementation: almost complete SQL-92</li>
<li>no complex client/server architecture</li>
<li>a whole database simply corresponds to a single monolithic file (no size limits)</li>
<li>any DB-file can be safely exchanged across different platforms, because the internal architecture is universally portable</li>
<li>no installation, no configuration</li></ul>

SpatiaLite is smoothly integrated into SQLite so to deploy a complete and powerfull Spatial DBMS (mostly OGC-SFS compliant).<br/>
Using SQLite + SpatiaLite you can effectively deploy an alternative <i>open source</i> Spatial DBMS roughly equivalent to <a href="http://www.postgresql.org/">PostgreSQL</a> + <a href="http://postgis.refractions.net/">PostGIS</a>. 

SpatiaLite is licensed under the <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/boilerplate-1.1/mpl-tri-license-html">MPL tri-license</a> terms; you are free to choose the best-fit license between:<ul>
<li>the <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/MPL-1.1.html">MPL 1.1</a></li>
<li>the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html#TOC1">GPL v2.0</a> or any subsequent version</li>
<li>the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html">LGPL v2.1</a> or any subsequent version</li></ul>
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<tr><td>Strictly related <b>projects</b>:<ul>
<li><a href="/cgi-bin/freexl">FreeXL</a></li>
<li><a href="/cgi-bin/spatialite-tools">spatialite-tools</a></li>
<li><a href="/cgi-bin/spatialite_gui">spatialite_gui</a></li></ul>
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<tr><td><b>Sources</b>: current version is <b>3.0.0 beta-1a</b> (<i>released on 2011-11-05)</i><ul>
<li>download <a href="http://www.gaia-gis.it/spatialite-3.0.0-BETA1a/libspatialite-3.0.0-beta1a.tar.gz">libspalialite-3.0.0-beta1a.tar.gz</a> (tarball, .tar.gz)</li>
<li>download <a href="http://www.gaia-gis.it/spatialite-3.0.0-BETA1a/libspatialite-3.0.0-beta1a.zip">libspatialite-3.0.0-beta1a.zip</a> (zipfile, .zip)</li>
<li>browse <a href="http://www.gaia-gis.it/spatialite-3.0.0-BETA1a/libspatialite-sources">older versions</a></li></ul>
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<tr><td>Doxygen <b>C API documentation</b>:<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.gaia-gis.it/spatialite-3.0.0-BETA1a/splite-doxy-3.0.0-beta1a/index.html">online</a> HTML doc</li>
<li><a href="http://www.gaia-gis.it/spatialite-3.0.0-BETA1a/splite-doxy-3.0.0-beta1a.tar.gz">download</a> HTML tarball (tar.gz)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.gaia-gis.it/spatialite-3.0.0-BETA1a/splite-doxy-3.0.0-beta1a.zip">download</a> HTML zipfile (zip)</li></ul>
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<tr><td><b>Spatial SQL functions</b> <a href="http://www.gaia-gis.it/spatialite-3.0.0-BETA1a/spatialite-sql-3.0.0.html">reference guide</a><td></tr>
<tr><td><b>Tutorials and other documentation</b><ul>
<li>The SpatiaLite <a href="/cgi-bin/libspatialite/cookbook">Cookbook</a></li>
<li>Miscellaneous <a href="misc-docs.html">documents</a></li></ul>
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<tr><td><b>Archaeological</b> <a href="http://www.gaia-gis.it/spatialite-3.0.0-BETA/index.html">web sites</a></td></tr>
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