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by endisneigh 1389 days ago
No durability guarantee is a showstopper for any serious use case
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Not sure what you mean by durability. Sqlite has WAL that can be replicated (see litestream)
https://www.sqlite.org/atomiccommit.html

sqlite is as good at durability as any non-replicated database, though you can configure it to be non-durable (most other databases too tbf).

https://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_synchronous

By default WAL mode can rollback committed transactions in cases of power failure, but you can do `PRAGMA synchronous = FULL` to trade speed for durability.

I’m talking about the post I originally commented on. Things were disabled so durability is not guaranteed.
Yeah that's not great
If it's good enough for avionics and nuclear subs, it's probably good enough for most web apps.
Web apps do more concurrent writes than subs, plus you can configure SQLite for more durability
I don't have the data for subs, but there's web app and web app. No one is talking about using SQLite for 5k queries/s.

It might work, but I reckon 90% of web applications live beneath this relatively small threshold and 80% probably don't even reach 50 q/s.