sqlite_orm VS SQLite

Obligatory "how does it compare to" https://github.com/fnc12/sqlite_orm ?

For SQLite, I like sqlite_orm

Probably the most popular ORM for modern C++ is https://github.com/fnc12/sqlite_orm. I've never used it personally. But if you configure SQLite to disable all the barriers and all synchronisation, I think you'll find it goes very, very quickly even with the ORM layer in between.

Hey folks. I've posted my new `SQLiteORM` lib today here on GitHub https://github.com/fnc12/sqlite-orm-swift . It is the same lib I've written with C++ before https://github.com/fnc12/sqlite_orm . It uses keypath instead of `Codable` protocol to serialize and deserialize objects. If you need to use SQLite database inside your Swift project and you hate writing SQL queries using raw strings then you may like this lib.

I was leaning towards SQLite (along with sqlite_orm ) since I thought my data might be more relational and I used to work with databases a lot more. And I can use a SQLite browser app to view my data. But I'm wondering if doing serialization with a library like cerial or Boost's would be better.

For the brief time I've used sqlite_orm, I've really liked it: https://github.com/fnc12/sqlite_orm

If you are into alternative storage engines for SQLite, there is also an LSM (Log-Structured Merge-tree) extension in the main repository that is not announced nor documented but seems to work. It’s based on the SQLite 4 project.

https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/tree/master/ext/lsm1

https://www.charlesleifer.com/blog/lsm-key-value-storage-in-...

The sqlite code base is really well done. Lots of documentation.

https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite

Especially the VM part: https://github.com/spandanb/learndb-py/blob/master/learndb/v...

Compare it with this: https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/blob/master/src/vdbe.c

That's said, I'm curious how complete this LearnDB is. SQLite is hard to read not only it's old but also it covers a lot of SQL and following SQL spec makes hings complicated. SQLite has great test suite so it's nice if you run the suit against this implementation.

"C in a Nutshell 2nd Ed" (O'Reilly, Prinz & Craqford, 2015) is a good reference although maybe not the best for a walk-through learning experience. It also has good chapters on tooling (gcc, make, gdb).

There's a recent book out I came across called "Bare Metal C" (No Starch Press, Oualline, 2022) which unpacks embedded programming in a very readable manner. I imagine a lot, if not most, C programming these days is done in the low-level embedded world, and this book clears up a lot of the mysteries.

https://nostarch.com/bare-metal-c

Also it never hurts to look at a good open-source codebase written in C, for example the SQLite code is worth looking at (if a bit overwhelming):

https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/tree/master/src

> After that, 510 bytes are used for the SHARED lock. A byte range is used here to accommodate older Windows versions with mandatory locks.

I was curious how old, and... wow, that code is for Windows versions that predate the NT kernel (Win95/98/ME). I'm surprised that it's still around, but the comment does a great job of explaining it.

https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/blob/3cf46ee508e97b46736a26...

I wouldn't rely on Google to learn good practices for technical documentation (unless they want to release their complete internal technical documents on how their recommendation algorithms work, that is).

Instead, check out a reliable open source project like SQLITE, they have great documentation:

https://www.sqlite.org/arch.html

https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite