There is a standard though-- the database file format. You can read and write database files without using any SQLite source code by conforming to the expected

There is a standard though-- the database file format. You can read and write database files without using any SQLite source code by conforming to the expected format: https://www.sqlite.org/fileformat.html https://www.sqlite.org/fileformat.html It's not even that exotic: a bunch of rows in a simple binary format stored in a btree. The rollback journal / WAL are trickier, but aren't strictly necessary. Implementing arbitrary SQL queries on top of the file format is obviously _much_ harder. Here's an example project doing this-- a pure Go sqlite reader: https://github.com/alicebob/sqlittle https://github.com/alicebob/sqlittle