How big is too big for SQLite?

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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.

Is SQLite good for large data?

Practically sqlite is likely to work as long as there is storage available. It works well with dataset larger than memory, it was originally created when memory was thin and it was a very important point from the start. There is absolutely no issue with storing 100 GB of data.

Is SQLite good enough for production?

SQLite works great as the database engine for most low to medium traffic websites (which is to say, most websites). The amount of web traffic that SQLite can handle depends on how heavily the website uses its database. Generally speaking, any site that gets fewer than 100K hits/day should work fine with SQLite.

How small is SQLite?

SQLite is a compact library. With all features enabled, the library size can be less than 750KiB, depending on the target platform and compiler optimization settings. (64-bit code is larger.

What is the maximum size of SQLite varchar?

(9) What is the maximum size of a VARCHAR in SQLite? SQLite does not enforce the length of a VARCHAR. You can declare a VARCHAR(10) and SQLite will be happy to store a 500-million character string there. And it will keep all 500-million characters intact.

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