How many requests per second can SQLite handle?

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Actually, SQLite will easily do 50,000 or more INSERT statements per second on an average desktop computer. But it will only do a few dozen transactions per second. Transaction speed is limited by the rotational speed of your disk drive.

How many requests can SQLite handle?

The SQLite website (https://www.sqlite.org/) uses SQLite itself, of course, and as of this writing (2015) it handles about 400K to 500K HTTP requests per day, about 15-20% of which are dynamic pages touching the database. Dynamic content uses about 200 SQL statements per webpage.

Can SQLite handle multiple requests?

SQLite is also capable of handling multiple simultaneous requests, albeit not as many as a propers SQL server like MySQL.

How fast are SQLite queries?

SQLite 2.7. 6 is often faster (sometimes more than twice as fast) than MySQL 3.23. 41 for most common operations. SQLite does not execute CREATE INDEX or DROP TABLE as fast as the other databases.

Does SQLite have a limit?

When used with the maximum page size of 65536, this gives a maximum SQLite database size of about 281 terabytes. The max_page_count PRAGMA can be used to raise or lower this limit at run-time. The theoretical maximum number of rows in a table is 264 (18446744073709551616 or about 1.8e+19).

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