On 13 Jul 2015, at 11:48pm, Roman Fleysher <roman.fleysher at einstein.yu.edu> wrote:
> What I also meant is that software often impements unique algorithms, which I > think SQLite does. These algorithms may be presented at conferences/journals. > In turn, these publications cite the URL. Thus, I was looking for such a > presentation, if it exists. Obviously, software may also impement other > algorithms developed by other people, not directly the software developers. > I would expect the "main" SQLite publication to mention them. Fair point. SQLite involves lots of algorithms, some of which may be unique, some of which may have been derived from those developed by other people. But SQLite isn't created as the result of academic publications even though the development team are all academics. There's no habit of publishing an academic paper before implementing a new idea. However, commented source code for SQLite is widely available, and I would suppose that the comments describe the algorithms implemented. So the "main" SQLite publication, if there is one, is its source code, which can be downloaded from <https://www.sqlite.org/download.html> in the section "Alternative Source Code Formats" described as "the complete (raw) source tree for SQLite". I'm not sure whether this helps you in any way. Sorry about that. Simon.
