SQLite has an extension called FTS5, which provides full-text search capabilities to your SQLite database.
So, how do you use the full-text search features in SQLite?
Watch this short video to learn more.
Did you know that SQLite offers profiling tools to help you identify the cause of slow queries? There's even a tool that suggests indexes you should add to improve a query's performance.
Watch this video to learn more.
Datatypes in SQLite are handled differently than pretty much every other popular relational database.
How is it different?
Well, SQLite uses a flexible, dynamic type system, whereas the other popular relational databases use a strict, static type system.
What does this mean to developers?
Watch this video to learn more.
SQLite is really easy to start using, you just need to add the library to your project and start issuing SQL statements.
Now, because it's so easy to start using SQLite, it might feel like it's configuration free, but that's not exactly true.
There are a few key configurations you should be familiar with, and in this
video we'll look at one of the most important configuration options, the
journal_mode option.
If you use a client/server based database (Postgres, MySQL etc) with tools like Object-Relational Mapper (ORM) or GraphQL, then your system is likely susceptible to the N+1 problem.
But did you know that not all databases are susceptible to the N+1 problem?
For example, SQLite doesn't experience the N+1 problem.
When you're at the beginning of a new software project, there's a question you should ask yourself, which is:
What architecture should you use for your application?
client/server or local or ...
Odds are, you probably don't explicitly ask this architecture question anymore, because you intuitively know the answer, which is almost always client/server right?