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A few of the better-known users of SQLite are shown below
in alphabetical order.
There is no complete list of projects and companies
that use SQLite.
SQLite is in the
public domain and so many people use it
in their projects without ever telling us.
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Adobe uses SQLite as the
application
file format for their
Photoshop Lightroom product.
This is publically acknowledged on the Lightroom/About_Lightroom menu popup.
Adobe has also announced that their
AIR project
will include SQLite. It
is reported that
Acrobat
Reader also uses SQLite.
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Apple uses SQLite for many functions
within Mac OS-X, including
Apple Mail,
Safari,
and in Aperture.
There are unconfirmed reports on the internet that Apple also uses SQLite in
the iPhone and in the
iPod touch.
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The Firefox Web Browser from Mozilla
has been slowly replacing their legacy file format "mork" with SQLite
for about two years. At this point, SQLite is used to store most
persistent metadata in Firefox.
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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.
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It is known that
Google
uses SQLite in their
Desktop for Mac,
in Google
Gears, and in the
Android cell-phone
operating system.
People are suspicious that Google uses SQLite for lots of other things
that we do not know about yet.
Engineers at Google have made extensive contributions to the
full-text search subsystem within SQLite.
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McAfee uses SQLite in its antivirus
programs.
Mentioned here and implied
here.
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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.
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The
Monotone
configuration management system stores an entire project history in
an SQLite database. Each file is a separate BLOB.
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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.
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The popular
PHP
programming language comes with both SQLite2 and SQLite3 built in.
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SQLite comes bundled with the
Python
programming language since Python 2.5.
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The REALbasic
programming environment comes bundled with an enhanced version of
SQLite that supports AES encryption.
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There are
multiple
sightings of SQLite in the Skype client for Mac OS X and Windows.
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Solaris 10
uses SQLite as the storage format for its Service Management Facility.
Thus, Sun has essentially replaced the traditional unix /etc/inittab
file with an SQLite database.
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SQLite is an integral part of
Symbian's operating system commonly
found on high-end cellphones.
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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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