This page lists several well-known companies and open-source projects
that are using SQLite. All of the references here are gathered from
public information sources.
The display of corporate and project logos is to facilitate recognition
of those corporations and projects
and does not imply any endorsement of SQLite by the owners of the logos.
These users are shown in alphabetical order.
Adobe
uses SQLite as the application file format for their
Lightroom
product. This is publically acknowledged on the Lightroom/About_Lightroom
menu popup. Adobe has also announced that their Apollo project will include SQLite.
Apple
uses SQLite for many functions within Mac OS X,
including
Apple Mail
and in
Aperture. It is also used in the Safari browser and in the iPhone and the iPod touch.
The
Firefox Web Browser
from Mozilla has recently been updated to use SQLite to store all kinds
of history information. SQLite is replacing Mork.
We believe that
General Electric uses SQLite
in some product or another because they twice wrote the to SQLite
developers requesting the
US Export Control Number
for SQLite.
So presumably GE is using SQLite in something that they are exporting.
But nobody (outside of GE) seems to know what that might be.
Google recently
revealed that they
are using SQLite in their Desktop for Mac. Additionally,
Google Gears, which allows web applications to work offline, uses SQLite for the offline data storage.
McAfee appears to use SQLite in its antivirus programs.
Mentioned here
and implied here
It can inferred from
traffic on the SQLite mailing list that at least one group within
Microsoft is using SQLite in
the development of a game program. No word yet if this game has
actually been released or if they are still using SQLite.
The
Monotone configuration management system
stores an entire project history in an SQLite database. Each file is a
separate BLOB.
It is reported that
Philips MP3 Players
use SQLite to store metadata about the music they hold.
Apparently, if you plug a Philips MP3 player into your USB port,
you can see the SQLite database file there in plain sight.
The popular
PHP programming language comes
with both SQLite2 and SQLite3 built in.
SQLite comes bundled with the
Python
programming langauge since Python 2.5.
The
REALbasic programming environment
comes bundled with an enhanced version of SQLite that supports
AES
encryption.
There are
multiple
sightings
of SQLite in the
Skype client for MacOSX and Windows.
Solaris 10
uses SQLite as the storage format for its Service Management Facility.
Thus, Sun as essentially replaced the traditional unix /etc/inittab file
with an SQLite database.
SQLite is an integral part of
Symbian's
operating system commonly found on high-end cellphones.
A representative of
Toshiba wrote to the
SQLite developers and requested the
US Export Control Number
for SQLite. We infer from this that Toshiba
is exporting something from the US that uses SQLite, but we do not know
what that something is.
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