Is SQLAlchemy faster than SQLite?

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Interesting to note that querying using bare sqlite3 is still about 3 times faster than using SQLAlchemy Core. 2 авг. 2012 г.

Which is better SQLite or SQLAlchemy?

Sqlite is a database storage engine, which can be better compared with things such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MSSQL, etc. It is used to store and retrieve structured data from files. SQLAlchemy is a Python library that provides an object relational mapper (ORM).

Is SQLAlchemy faster?

SQLAlchemy is very, very fast. It's just that users tend to be unaware of just how much functionality is being delivered, and confuse an ORM result set with that of a raw database cursor.

How make SQLAlchemy faster?

SQLAlchemy is just the connector to the database, the whole query runs at the end of the database. If you are using MySQL database, you should also try MySQLdb API which is a bit faster then SQLAlchemy because MySQLdb is specifically object-oriented for the MySQL operations and iterations.

Is SQLAlchemy SQLite?

The ORM provided by SQLAlchemy sits between the SQLite database and your Python program and transforms the data flow between the database engine and Python objects. SQLAlchemy allows you to think in terms of objects and still retain the powerful features of a database engine.

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