Is SQLite faster than file?

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SQLite is competitive with, and usually faster than, blobs stored in separate files on disk, for both reading and writing. SQLite is much faster than direct writes to disk on Windows when anti-virus protection is turned on.

How SQLite is fast?

SQLite 2.7. 6 is significantly faster (sometimes as much as 10 or 20 times faster) than the default PostgreSQL 7.1. ... SQLite works best if you group multiple operations together into a single transaction.

Are databases faster than files?

As a general rule, databases are slower than files. If you require indexing of your files, a hard-coded access path on customised indexing structures will always have the potential to be faster if you do it correctly.

Which is faster CSV or SQLite?

Unless you're doing something very trivial to the CSV, and only doing it once, SQLite will be faster for runtime, coding time, and maintenance time, and it will be more flexible. The major advantages of putting the CSV into SQLite are... Query with a known query language. Query with a flexible query language.

Why is SQLite so slow?

The SQLite docs explains why this is so slow: Transaction speed is limited by disk drive speed because (by default) SQLite actually waits until the data really is safely stored on the disk surface before the transaction is complete. That way, if you suddenly lose power or if your OS crashes, your data is still safe.

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