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SpatiaLite is an open source library intended to extend the SQLite core to support fully fledged Spatial SQL capabilities.
SQLite is intrinsically simple and lightweight:
  • a single lightweight library implementing the full SQL engine
  • standard SQL implementation: almost complete SQL-92
  • no complex client/server architecture
  • a whole database simply corresponds to a single monolithic file (no size limits)
  • any DB-file can be safely exchanged across different platforms, because the internal architecture is universally portable
  • no installation, no configuration
SpatiaLite is smoothly integrated into SQLite to provide a complete and powerful Spatial DBMS (mostly OGC-SFS compliant).
Using SQLite + SpatiaLite you can effectively deploy an alternative open source Spatial DBMS roughly equivalent to PostgreSQL + PostGIS. SpatiaLite is licensed under the MPL tri-license terms; you are free to choose the best-fit license between:
Closely related projects:
Sources: current version is 4.2.0 (released on 2014-07-25)
  • browse older versions
    • SpatiaLite portings for Android: old 3.0.1       current 4.2.0
    Doxygen C API documentation:
    Spatial SQL functions reference guide
    Tutorials, Cookbook and other documentation
    Archaeological web sites
    Updated doc supporting recent versions: v.4.0 v.4.1 v.4.2
    Credits
    Development of SpatiaLite 4.1.0 and 4.2.0 has been substantially funded by Tuscany Region - Territorial and Environmental Information System
    Regione Toscana - Settore Sistema Informativo Territoriale ed Ambientale.
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