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SQLite History

SQLite was designed originally on August 2000. It is named SQLite because it is very light weight (less than 500Kb size) unlike other database management systems like SQL Server or Oracle.

Year	Happenings
2000	SQLite was designed by D. Richard Hipp for the purpose of no administration required for operating a program.
2000	In August SQLite 1.0 released with GNU database manager.
2011	Hipp announced to add UNQl interface to SQLite db and to develop UNQLite (Document oriented database).

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