Periodic Table of Elements Database Maker

A command-line application that takes a JSON-formatted datastore file from The National Library of Medicine and produces an optimized SQLite database file with a table containing all of the records from the datastore file.

Build system

• make used to build this project
• clang++ using std=c++20
• clang used for SQLite3 compilation
• Run $ make to build binary executable
• Run $ make run to run executable with appropriate command-line arguments
• Run $ make clean to cleanup build directory

Example usage

$ ./ptegen input_file_path=<path/to/input/file> output_file_path=<path/to/output/file>

Source of elements data

• https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/rest/pug/periodictable/JSON?response_type=display

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