Why SQLite is not used in production?

Is SQLite used in industry?

uses SQLite in their Android cell-phone operating system, and in the Chrome Web Browser. ... Microsoft uses SQLite as a core component of Windows 10, and in other products. SQLite is the primary meta-data storage format for the Firefox Web Browser and the Thunderbird Email Reader from Mozilla.

When should you not use SQLite?

A good rule of thumb is to avoid using SQLite in situations where the same database will be accessed directly (without an intervening application server) and simultaneously from many computers over a network. SQLite will normally work fine as the database backend to a website.

Can I use SQLite in production Django?

It is not impossible to use Django with Sqlite as database in production, primarily depending on your website/webapp traffic and how hard you hit your db (alongside what kind of operations you perform on it i.e. reads/writes/etc).

Why is SQLite not scalable?

Scalability SQLite requires too much memory to run if the database is big. Then it's hard to optimize for the higher performance. It's also one of the limitations of SQLite is the write operations. MySQL can handle a lot of data and furthermore it can be used at scale.