# IFC SQLite Project

**URL:** <https://forums.buildingsmart.org/t/ifc-sqlite-project/1359>\
**Category:** Developers\
**Tags:** ifc4, ifc5\
**Created:** [April 26, 2019, 10:59am UTC](https://forums.buildingsmart.org/t/ifc-sqlite-project/1359 "2019-04-26T10:59:17Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 1:49pm UTC](https://forums.buildingsmart.org/t/ifc-sqlite-project/1359/2 "2019-06-20T13:49:39Z")

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ok, let’s start with IFC for relational databases.

First of all: why to do this?

For me the benefits of sql based working are

1. well known data-access (like XML too), no parser required
2. integrated referencial integrity (not by a seperate test)
3. typesave in base-types
4. multiuser functionality (many users can work on the same datapool at the same time)

The points 3) and 4) are - as far as I know - not capabilities of SQLite.  
But SQLite could be a possible target for IFC-Data.

It is not only a SQLite-theme.

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