SQLite，是一款轻型的数据库，是遵守ACID的关联式数据库管理系统，它的设计目标是嵌入式的，而且目前已经在很多嵌入式产品中使用了它，它占用资源非常的低，在嵌入式设备中，可能只需要几百K的内存就够了。它能够支持Windows/Linux/Unix等等主流的操作系统，同时能够跟很多程序语言相结合，比如 Tcl、C#、PHP、Java等，还有ODBC接口，同样比起Mysql、PostgreSQL这两款开源世界著名的数据库管理系统来讲，它的处理速度比他们都快。SQLite第一个Alpha版本诞生于2000年5月. 至今已经有10个年头，SQLite也迎来了一个版本 SQLite 3已经发布。

-SQLite, is a lightweight database, is to follow ACID relational database management system, its design goal is embedded, and is currently in many embedded products used in it, it takes up resources is very low, in embedded devices, may require only a few hundred K memory is enough. It can support Windows/Linux/Unix and so on mainstream operating system, at the same time with many programming languages such as Tcl, C combination,#, PHP, Java, and ODBC interface, as compared with Mysql, PostgreSQL two of the open source world famous database management system, its processing speed than they are fast. The first version of Alpha SQLite was born in 2000 of May. So far has been 10 years, SQLite also ushered in a version of SQLite 3 has been released.