The BDB SQL interface comes as a part of the Oracle Berkeley DB download. This can be downloaded from the Oracle Berkeley DB download page.
How you install the BDB SQL interface differs depending on whether you are using a Unix or a Windows system.
The BDB SQL interface is automatically built and installed
whenever you build or install Berkeley DB for a Windows
system. The BDB SQL interface dlls and the
command line interpreter have names that differ from a
standard SQLite distribution as follows:
dbsql.exe
This is the command line shell. It operates identically to the SQLite sqlite3.exe shell.
libdb_sql50.dll
This is the library that provides the BDB SQL interface.
It is the equivalent of the SQLite
sqlite3.dll library.
In order to build the BDB SQL interface, you download and build
Berkeley DB, configuring it so that the BDB SQL interface is also built.
Be aware that it is not built by default. Instead, you
need to tell the Berkeley DB configure
script to also build the BDB SQL interface. For instructions on
building the BDB SQL interface, see Building the DB SQL Interface in the
Berkeley DB Installation and Build Guide.
The library and application names used when building
the BDB SQL interface are different than those used by SQLite.
If you want library and command shell names that are
consistent with the names used by SQLite, configure
the BDB SQL interface build using the compatibility
(--enable-sql_compat) option.
The compatibility option can break other applications on your platform that rely on standard SQLite. This is especially true of Mac OS X, which uses standard SQLite for a number of default applications.
Use the compatibility option only if you know exactly what you are doing.
Unless you built the BDB SQL interface with the compatibility option, libraries and a command line shell are built with the following names:
This is the command line shell. It operates identically to the SQLite sqlite3 shell.
libdb_sql
This is the library that provides the BDB SQL interface.
It is the equivalent of the SQLite
libsqlite3 library.