SQLite's Performance Advantages: How Embedded Design Enables 100,000 TPS Over Billion Rows
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Summary
This article challenges common misconceptions about SQLite's limitations, arguing that its embedded nature and single-writer architecture are actually strengths that enable exceptional performance. The author presents benchmark results showing SQLite achieving 100,000 transactions per second over a billion rows, demonstrating how its design choices allow for remarkable scalability despite conventional wisdom favoring more complex databases like PostgreSQL for web servers.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledSQLite doesn't have MVCC! It only has a single writer!
SQLite is for phones and mobile apps (and the occasional airliner)!
For web servers use a proper database like Postgres!
why being embedded and a single writer are not deficiencies but actually allow SQLite to scale so unreasonably well
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