# database
store admin data in `~/.geolite/database.sqlite3` (layers 1, 4, 5); raw OSM primitives (layers 2–3) live in a sibling `~/.geolite/database.osm_data.sqlite3`, attached at runtime as schema `osm_data`
## layers
```
layer 5 · admin_levels_hierarchy ancestor chain + user-friendly name per admin level — domain/admin_level_hierarchy
· admin_levels_rtree virtual rtree: bbox spatial index for fast coord lookup — domain/admin_level
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layer 4 · admin_levels admin areas — levels 1–9 (admin_level tag), 10 (place ways), 12 (streets) — domain/admin_level
· house_numbers address nodes linked to a street (admin_levels row)
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layer 3 · osm_nodes / osm_ways / osm_relations raw OSM primitives
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layer 2 · osm_pbf_blob_chunks byte ranges of each blob (header=0 / data=1)
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layer 1 · osm_pbf_files one row per .osm.pbf — origin (local_path, geofabrik, url) and its coverage, download state, header and counts
```
`admin_levels` and its rtree are owned by [`domain/admin_level`](../domain/readme.md#admin_level), `admin_levels_hierarchy` by [`domain/admin_level_hierarchy`](../domain/readme.md#admin_level_hierarchy); this folder keeps the connection lifecycle that creates them.
layers are built roughly bottom-up (back-references: `house_numbers → admin_levels`, and the `*_count` columns on `osm_pbf_files`). `destroy_data` selectively drops upper layers — deleting the `osm_data` sibling file when layer 2 goes, and dropping only the three element tables when layer 3 goes alone, so the chunk index survives a `--recreate` of the osm-data stage — then vacuums; `osm_pbf_files` is kept.
every writable connection runs in WAL mode; the schema is stamped via `PRAGMA user_version` (`SCHEMA_VERSION`): a writable open refuses a database stamped with another version, and `geolite merge` refuses to combine builds with an incompatible one. a column that only extends the schema is added to an older database on open (`ALTER TABLE`), without a new version.
`jsonb.rs` is the encoder behind every `payload` column: sqlite's jsonb binary format, written once per element in the extraction's decoder threads and read back with `JSON(payload)`.