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benwilber0 ◴[] No.43541401[source]

I just wrote a post about this kind of stuff and why it's (almost always) nonsense. You will spend more time and effort trying to shoe-horn SQLite into a server database than you will ever get any benefits from.

https://benwilber.github.io/programming/2025/03/31/sqlite-is...

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1. crazygringo ◴[] No.43541581[source]

Agreed. I've been seeing a lot of these posts lately, about embedding SQLite into web servers.

I think a lot of people just don't realize how few resources Postgres or MySQL use, and how fast they are. You can run Apache and MySQL and a scripting language on a tiny little 512 MB memory instance, and serve some decent traffic. It works great.

Wanting to use SQLite and deal with replication is a nightmare. I don't get it. (And I love using SQLite in apps and scripts. But not websites!)