How to reduce the size of an sqlite3 database for iphone?

Question

edit: many thanks for all the answers. Here are the results after applying the optimisations so far:

• Switching to sorting the characters and run l

Answer 1

Your best bet is to use compression, which unfortunately SQLite does not support natively at this point. Luckily, someone took the time to develop a compression extension for it which could be what you need.

Otherwise I'd recommend storing your data mostly in compressed format and uncompressing on the fly.