What If OpenDocument Used SQLite?

Jaroslaw Staniek staniek at kde.org
Sat Aug 29 23:19:34 BST 2015


??
SQL statements are not the part of storage format of databases. They
are for queries, for the )access_. Just like, say, language of Strigi
queries (or SPARQL) do not define the storage format. Hmm.

On 25 August 2015 at 01:30, René J.V. <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday August 25 2015 00:59:28 Jos van den Oever wrote:
>
>> 5) Content is inaccessible.
>>     XML matches office documents much closer than SQL. Formatting XML is
>> easy and automatically done by most viewers.
>
> I'd cite 5) for content stored in sql files ... Storing a text document in a text-based format means you can get at the text with only very basic tools, and I consider that an insurmountable advantage. Esp. once you've seen how relatively easy it is to corrupt an sql file in just the ways to make the entire file unreadable.
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