SQLite 2013 aftermath

For you who are interessed by SQLite keeping moving forward here is what D. R. Hipp posted for your information:

 

Here is a quick summary of the changes and enhancements to SQLite during

2013.  The comparison is between trunk versions,

http://www.sqlite.org/src/info/a611c75 versus

http://www.sqlite.org/src/info/cc72c5aec7

The amalgamation source file grew in side from 137619 lines to 145010

lines, or 4868834 bytes to 5125216 bytes.  Excluding comments the size grew

from 82156 lines to 87537 lines.  That's between 5% to 7% growth in source

code, depending on how you measure.  Approximately one source code line out

of every five changed during 2013 for a 20% code churn.

The compiled binary (gcc 4.8.1 with -Os on x64) grew from 412365 to 433963

bytes, or about 5%.

Running a typical mix of SQL statements (as implemented by the

http://www.sqlite.org/src/artifact/7130d2cb?ln test program), SQLite uses

15.5% fewer CPU operations to do the same task as it did one year ago, as

measured by valgrind.  Real-time performance is about 12% faster according

to that same benchmark running on Ubuntu 13.10, x64.

There were 737 trunk check-ins during 2013, or about two check-ins per

day.  There were an additional 924 check-ins on branches, for a total of

1661 check-ins.  416 files were changed in some way or another.  24216

lines were inserted and 12744 lines deleted, according to diffstat.  The

above is for the main source tree only.  There are many, many other

enhancements to the documentation and test suites.

The following releases occurred during 2013:

    2013-01-09:   3.7.15.2

    2013-03-18:   3.7.16

    2013-03-29:   3.7.16.1

    2013-04-12:   3.7.16.2

    2013-05-20:   3.7.17

    2013-08-26:   3.8.0

    2013-08-29:   3.8.0.1

    2013-09-03:   3.8.0.2

    2013-10-17:   3.8.1

    2013-12-06:   3.8.2

Major new features added in 2013 include:

   1.  Memory-mapped I/O:  http://www.sqlite.org/mmap.html

   2.  The next-generation query planner:

http://www.sqlite.org/queryplanner-ng.html

   3.  Partial indices: http://www.sqlite.org/partialindex.html

   4.  WITHOUT ROWID tables: http://www.sqlite.org/withoutrowid.html

New PRAGMAs:

   1.  PRAGMA foreign_key_check;

   2.  PRAGMA application_id;

   3.  PRAGMA defer_foreign_keys;

   4.  PRAGMA cache_spill;

   5.  PRAGMA query_only;

   6.  PRAGMA soft_heap_limit;

New SQL functions:

   1.  printf()  -- to appear in version 3.8.3

   2.  unlikely()

   3.  likelihood()

   4.  unicode()

   5.  char()

New C-language APIs:

   1.  sqlite3_cancel_auto_extension()

   2.  sqlite3_strglob()

New tested and supported extensions added to the source tree:

   1.  The approximate_match virtual table:

www.sqlite.org/src/artifact/678056a

   2.  The transitive_closure virtual table:

www.sqlite.org/src/artifact/6360243

   3.  The ieee754() SQL function:

http://www.sqlite.org/src/artifact/b03621672

   4.  The next_char() SQL function: www.sqlite.org/src/artifact/35c8b8ba

   5.  The percentile() SQL function: www.sqlite.org/src/artifact/bcbee3c

   6.  The regexp() SQL function:

http://www.sqlite.org/src/artifact/af92cdaa5

   7.  The rot13() SQL function: http://www.sqlite.org/src/artifact/1ac6f95f

   8.  The spellfix1 virtual table: http://www.sqlite.org/spellfix1.html

   9.  The tointeger() and toreal() SQL functions:

www.sqlite.org/src/artifact/4a167594

   10. The wholenumber virtual table: www.sqlite.org/src/artifact/784b1254

In addition to the above, there are countless new test cases and minor

feature and performance enhancements.

Our goal is to maintain this aggressive pace of innovation and enhancement

in SQLite throughout 2014 and beyond.

Happy New Year to all.

--

D. Richard Hipp

drh@sqlite.org

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