Over the past year or two, I’ve worked on a project to convert a massive dataset into an SQLite database. The original data was in a compressed binary format known as OSMPBF, which stands for OpenStreetMap Protocol Buffer Format. This format is highly compact and compressed, making it difficult to search. The goal of converting it into an SQLite database was to leverage SQLite’s search functionalities, such as full-text search, R-tree indexes, and traditional B-tree indexes on database table col...