This SQLite3 loadable extension adds features to the ubiquitous embedded RDBMS supporting applications in genome bioinformatics:

• genomic range indexing for overlap queries & joins
• in-SQL utility functions, e.g. reverse-complement DNA, parse "chr1:2,345-6,789"
• automatic streaming storage compression (also available standalone)
• reading directly from HTTP(S) URLs (also available standalone)
• pre-tuned settings for "big data"

This November 2021 poster discusses the context and long-run ambitions:

Our Colab notebook demonstrates key features with Python, one of several language bindings.

USE AT YOUR OWN RISK: This project is not associated with the SQLite developers. The database storage extensions are designed to preserve ACID transaction safety, but they're young and unlikely to be totally bug-free.

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We supply the extension prepackaged for Linux x86-64 and macOS Apple Silicon (macOS 15+). An up-to-date version of SQLite itself is also required, as specified in the docs.

Programming language support:

• C/C++
• Python ≥3.10
• Java & JVM languages
• Rust

More to come. (Help wanted; see Language Bindings Guide)

Most will prefer to install a pre-built shared library (see above). To build from source, see our Actions yml (Ubuntu 20.04) or Dockerfile (CentOS 7) used to build the more-portable releases. Briefly, you'll need:

• C++11 build system
• CMake ≥ 3.14
• Dev packages: SQLite ≥ 3.31.0, Zstandard ≥ 1.3.4, libcurl

And incantations:

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -B build .
cmake --build build -j 4 --target genomicsqlite

...generating build/libgenomicsqlite.so. To run the test suite, you'll furthermore need:

• htslib ≥ 1.9, samtools, and tabix
• pigz
• Python ≥ 3.10 and packages: pytest pytest-xdist pre-commit ruff
• JDK, mvn, rust
• clang-format & cppcheck

to:

pre-commit run --all-files  # formatters+linters
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -B build .
cmake --build build -j 4
env -C build ctest -V