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[-] lemann@lemmy.one 86 points 1 year ago

Ah, good ol' Microsoft Office. Taken advantage of their documents being a renamed .zip format to send forbidden attachments to myself via email lol

On the flip side, there's stuff like the Audacity app, that saves each audio project as an SQLite database 😳

[-] Hexagon@feddit.it 51 points 1 year ago

Also .jar files. And good ol' winamp skins. And CBZ comics. And EPUB books. And Mozilla extensions. And APK apps. And...

[-] beeb@lemm.ee 28 points 1 year ago

an SQLite database

Genius! Why bother importing and exporting

[-] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 1 year ago

Minetest (an open-source Minecraft-like game) uses SQLite to save worlds.

[-] lemann@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago

Mineclone2 is an absolute masterpiece of a game for Minetest IMO

[-] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 year ago

I prefer games that embrace the difference from Minecraft instead of trying to emulate it. My favorite is MeseCraft.

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago

So does Scrap Mechanic (sandbox game that's basically Space Engineers on the ground -- or, more loosely, Minecraft but with physics and you can build cars) also uses sqlite to save worlds. It also uses uncompressed JSON files to store user creations.

[-] gamma@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

It used to use project folders, but due to confusion/user error was changed in 3.0.

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago

SQLite is amazing. Shush.

[-] mogoh@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago

that saves each audio project as an SQLite database 😳

Is this a problem? I thought this would be a normal use case for SQLite.

[-] fiah@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 year ago

doesn't sqlite explicitly encourage this? I recall claims about storing blobs in a sqlite db having better performance than trying to do your own file operations

[-] MNByChoice@midwest.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks for the hint. I had to look that up. (The linked page is worth a read and has lots of details and caveats.)

The scope is narrow, and well documented. Be very wary of over generalizing.

The measurements in this article were made during the week of 2017-06-05 using a version of SQLite in between 3.19.2 and 3.20.0. You may expect future versions of SQLite to perform even better.

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

SQLite reads and writes small blobs (for example, thumbnail images) 35% faster¹ than the same blobs can be read from or written to individual files on disk using fread() or fwrite().

Furthermore, a single SQLite database holding 10-kilobyte blobs uses about 20% less disk space than storing the blobs in individual files.)

Edit 5: consolidated my edits.

[-] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Civilisation (forget which) runs on an SQLite DB. I was rather surprised when I discovered this, back then.

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