A while ago, Simon Willison expressed the idea that SQLite enables a very neat pattern whereby software can carry its datasets in the form of SQLite databases. Such a database is to be used only to read from, and actually presents a very neat, portable, universal data structure for querying a dataset that would otherwise need to be loaded into memory and structured manually. For dynamic and interpreted languages this is actually even more relevant, because loading a sizeable chunk of data fro...
