Does SQLite allow concurrency?

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Overview. Usually, SQLite allows at most one writer to proceed concurrently. The BEGIN CONCURRENT enhancement allows multiple writers to process write transactions simultanously if the database is in "wal" or "wal2" mode, although the system still serializes COMMIT commands.

Does SQLite support concurrency?

SQLite does support multiple concurrent connections, and therefore it can be used with a multi-threaded or multi-process application. The catch is that when SQLite opens a write transaction, it will lock all the tables.

How many concurrent connections can SQLite handle?

There is actually no pre-defined limit for number of concurrent connections in sqlite for the same process. This is upto your system's performance. The quotation given by user647772 is about limit of concurrent processes or applications using the same sqlite DB, not valid for concurrent threads in the same process.

Does SQLite support multiple connections?

Yes SQLite can support multiple users at once. It does however lock the whole database when writing, so if you have lots of concurrent writes it is not the database you want (usually the time the database is locked is a few milliseconds - so for most uses this does not matter).

What are the limitations of SQLite?

An SQLite database is limited in size to 281 terabytes (248 bytes, 256 tibibytes). And even if it could handle larger databases, SQLite stores the entire database in a single disk file and many filesystems limit the maximum size of files to something less than this.

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