[nirimda]

One of SQLite's strengths is that it's not client-server, so there's no single sqlite server. It is simply not possible to have multiple applications try to use a single sqlite server, because you cannot use what does not exist. No sane person would ever say "it's ill-advised to have multiple ambassadors try to speak to the King of the USA", and likewise no sane person should ever say "it's ill-advised to have multiple applications try to use a single sqlite server".

It is however possible to have multiple applications access the same sqlite database on the same filesystem (i.e. locally, not via network access, not via remounts or symlinks or other forms of synonyms) and it will sort out the locking for you. Depending on what you need to do, there's I think three possible strategies you can use so it can probably handle your concurrency needs faster than Postgres via the network can. For instance, this particular task is write-heavy, and it would benefit from a different setting than a read-heavy application.

There are certainly occasions when Postgres or MySQL or MS SQL or Oracle is a better choice than SQLite, and sometimes concurrency contributes to that decision. But it's unlikely to be the case that you had an SQLite solution that worked really well with one process reading and writing from the database, and now all of a sudden you need a second or third application to use the database concurrently with the first, and you find you need to switch to a client-server model And even if sometimes you need to take specific steps (like adopting a different locking model), you also have to take specific steps to run Postgres (e.g. using a pool to speed up connections and limit the number of concurrent connections because each connection is a separate process). It's a matter of knowing your tools.