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Tell the users what the default SQL DB backend is
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neteler committed Jun 16, 2019
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site ID, geologic type, etc.). As a general rule these can exist in 2D
or 3D space and are independent of the GIS's computation region.

<h3>Attribute management</h3>

The default database driver used by GRASS GIS 7 is SQLite. GRASS GIS
handles multiattribute vector data by default. The <em>db.*</em> set of
commands provides basic SQL support for attribute management, while the
<em>v.db.*</em> set of commands operates on vector maps.

<p>
Note: The list of available database drivers can vary in various binary
distributions of GRASS GIS, for details see
<a href="sql.html">SQL support in GRASS GIS</a>.

<h3>Vector data import and export</h3>

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<li><b>SQL support</b><br>
The DBF driver provides only very limited SQL support (as DBF is not an
SQL DB) while the other DBMS backends (such as SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL
etc) provide full SQL support since the SQL commands are sent directly
to the DBMI. SQL commands can be directly executed with
By default, SQLite is used as the attribute database. Also other
supported DBMS backends (such as SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL etc.)
provide full SQL support as the SQL statements are sent directly
to GRASS' database management interface (DBMI). Only the DBF driver
provides just very limited SQL support (as DBF is not an SQL DB).
SQL commands can be directly executed with
<a href="db.execute.html">db.execute</a>,
<a href="db.select.html">db.select</a> and the other db.* modules.
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