Overview
Data Types
http://www.sqlite.org/datatype3.html Most SQL database engines (every SQL database engine other than SQLite, as far as we know) uses static, rigid typing. With static typing, the datatype of a value is determined by its container - the particular column in which the value is stored.
SQLite uses a more general dynamic type system. In SQLite, the datatype of a value is associated with the value itself, not with its container. The dynamic type system of SQLite is backwards compatible with the more common static type systems of other database engines in the sense that SQL statement that work on statically typed databases should work the same way in SQLite. However, the dynamic typing in SQLite allows it to do things which are not possible in traditional rigidly typed databases.
Limits
| Feature | Limit |
|---|---|
| Max Number of Columns | Default: 2000 Max: 32767 |
| Number of rows | 2 ^ 64 (Max file size should be reached before this) |
| Page size | 512 - 65536 |
| Database size | 2 ^ 31 - 2 * Page_Size - Max theoretical size is 14 Terabytes, Operating system file size limit could occur before that point |
| UUID | UUID's implemented in randomblob(); + hex(); |
| Auto Increment | AUTOINCREMENT keyword guarantees that automatically chosen ROWIDs will be increasing but not that they will be sequential |
| Joins | SQLite supports JOINS and LEFT Joins, FULL JOIN and RIGHT JOIN are supported |