Can SQLite store an entire database in a single file?

Can a database be a single file?

SQLite packages the entire database into a single file. That single file contains the database layout as well as the actual data held in all the different tables and indexes. The file format is cross-platform and can be accessed on any machine, regardless of native byte order or word size.

Is SQLite single file?

A database in SQLite is a single disk file¹. Furthermore, the file format is cross-platform. A database that is created on one machine can be copied and used on a different machine with a different architecture.

Does SQLite have a limit?

There is no 2 GB limit. SQLite database files have a maximum size of about 140 TB. On a phone, the size of the storage (a few GB) will limit your database file size, while the memory size will limit how much data you can retrieve from a query.

Is SQLite good for large data?

It works well with dataset larger than memory, it was originally created when memory was thin and it was a very important point from the start. There is absolutely no issue with storing 100 GB of data.