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I respect your research into the matter, but it frankly doesn't matter one bit. Here's why.

Your peak load/sec is never going to be close to your average load/sec. I've seen be between 2x-5x average load.

Read performance on simple selects is straightforward to scale. Most solutions to that problem just put the data in memory, via the database cache or memcache.

Part of the difficulty is in scaling writes. What if your 1000 queries/sec are all inserts on the same 500M row table? What if they are updates updates on a table that's 10M rows long? This is when you have to make hard decisions about sharding and the like.

I certainly believe that SQLite is "fast enough" for many applications. I also know that many applications are NOT doing 10s of millions of requests a day.



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