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By: kscheirer

kscheirer — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:54:05 +0000

I think the reason people are excited about sql lite is that its entirely file-based, theres no server or process that needs to be running. So on a shared host, you just need to be able to write a file or two, and you can have you DB backend.

generally sqlite is less powerful than mysql, but it can run really well in low-processing-power environments. That speed test is for fairly old versions of mysql and sqlite, I wonder what the current numbers are?

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:51:47 +0000

There is an older speed test here: http://www.sqlite.org/speed.html

That shows that sometimes SQLite is faster than MySQL. Remember, in the end MySQL is reading from disk as well, so, there isn’t much performance difference (blah, caching, blah blah blah).

Robin

By: eatme

eatme — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:21:18 +0000

> Is it a performance benefit?

Im pretty sure its a significant performance hit.

But it will make deployment for small projects and quick tests insanely simple.

You could also set up a drupal site on the free server space most ISPs provide.

By: akahn

akahn — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:01:53 +0000

What is the advantage of using SQLite? I always thought the concept was neat but I don’t know what the actual advantages are over a traditional database server. Is it a performance benefit?

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Drupal Databases: The Next Generation — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:53:38 +0000

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