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by birdstheword5 1427 days ago
Spatialite is such an amazing and little talked about tool. I think most people go straight for its bigger cousin POSTGIS which is the correct decision 99% of the time.

However there are situations where you don't want a full blown database server and an embedded db is better.

I have seen one company just store the geometries as well known text in sqlite, then act all confused when their application runs incredibly slow.