• SQL stands for Structured Query Language used to query data from a relational database management system. It is not a database itself.

  • SQLite is an embedded Relational Database Management Systems written in ANSI-C. As the name suggests, it a light version of the relational database management system (RDBMS), which is used in most of the small and portable devices like Android and iOS devices.

As we can clearly see, the main difference here is that SQL is a query language, while SQLite is a database management system which uses SQL to query data. In other words, SQLite is a book, and SQL is the language that the book was written in.

Many people use SQL to actually refer to SQL Server, which is a commercial relational database management system provided by Microsoft. But that’s a total difference story.

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