I am developing a small desktop application with Java + Hibernate. I am using MySQL for development but want to replace it with light version of SQL like SQLLite .
I want to do this for following reasons:
- To avoid installation and configuration of MySQL. This will allow my clients to install and configure the application on their own.
- To ease backup and restore of DB.
- etc.
I found SQLLiteDialect, its configurations and a working sample eclipse project(uses hibernate3) on http://code.google.com/p/hibernate-sqlite/.
But when I read the comment on a question : “Since SQLite database is widely used and it is not well supported by Hibernate in java,it’s not easy to use SQLite with Hibernate” I got frightened.
Can you please suggest me – is it a good idea to use SQLite here?
Are there any alternative to SQLite that is well supported by Hibernate?
I think there are pros and cons to every DB out there. For embedded DB’s, you could also look at HSQLDB or H2DB.