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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 groups use SQLite
in their projects without ever telling us.
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Adobe uses SQLite as the
application
file format for their
Photoshop Lightroom
product.
SQLite is also a standard part of the
Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR).
It is reported that
Acrobat Reader
also uses SQLite.
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Airbus confirms that SQLite is being
used in the flight software for the
A350 XWB family
of aircraft.
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Apple uses SQLite for many functions
within Mac OS X, including
Apple Mail,
Safari,
and in Aperture.
Apple uses SQLite in
the iPhone and in the
iPod touch and in
iTunes software.
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The increasingly popular Dropbox file
archiving and synchronization service is reported to use SQLite as
the primary data store on the client side.
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SQLite is the primary meta-data storage format for
the Firefox Web Browser and the
Thunderbird Email Reader from
Mozilla.
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Flame
is a malware spy program that is reported to make heavy use of SQLite.
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We believe that General Electric
uses SQLite in some product or
another because they twice wrote to the 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,
in the Android cell-phone
operating system, and in the
Chrome Web Browser.
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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Intuit apparently uses SQLite in
QuickBooks and in
TurboTax to judge from some error
reports from users seen
here and
here.
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McAfee uses SQLite in its antivirus
programs.
Mentioned here and implied
here.
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It can be 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 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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The Tcl/Tk programming language now comes with SQLite built-in. SQLite works
particularly well with Tcl since SQLite was originally a Tcl extension that
subsequently "escaped" into the wild.
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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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