I have migrated a binary file format to an SQLite-based ORM schema at one of my jobs. It worked out amazingly well, with (limited) forward and backward compatib

I have migrated a binary file format to an SQLite-based ORM schema at one of my jobs. It worked out amazingly well, with (limited) forward and backward compatibility for nearly free. A lot of hairy if-else code was made unnecessary. SQLite is IMHO the best option for data serialization/persistence/interchange in many cases, especially when some data is a blob, or, say, a huge array of floating-point numbers that you need to store with full precision (which makes text-based formats clunky to deal with).