[obfuscurity_]

Except that while Graphite is a "real web application", it's generally internal-facing only. As such, I never looked at it as needing a true "production-ready" RDBMS with real concurrency. And to be honest, we got by just fine with it in production at Heroku and GitHub, at heavy volume, running in a single server on SQLite. It never bit us, and all things considered, was a reasonable choice.

That said, knowing what I know now, I would've never done that. ;-)

[yeukhon]

I disagree because it is internal facing lol. If the software is capable of running on a true production-ready DBMS, there is no point why it can't be done already.

If SQLite is cheap to use because it's a single file, well, a sudo apt-get install PostgreSQL and then a few commands to set up the database and user password won't take you longer than 10 minutes. That's what I am arguing. There is no reason why we would use SQLite for heavy loading application such as logging. And I think we can now agree that's indeed true and I think we should promote people to use production-ready DBMS even during dev and testing, because those are the one you are going to use in production :)

[obfuscurity_]

Nobody ever said it /can't/ be done. I would never have argued against using a real RDBMS. But I've often been guilty of telling folks that SQLite was "good enough".

Installing PostgreSQL as you described is not "good enough". If you're going to bother with that, you need to understand the database enough to tune it properly, setup backups, test restores, etc. There are more considerations than simply installing it from apt-get and then forgetting about it.

[yeukhon]

Yes that's true, but by default they come with good configurations which should enable better write and read in most cases against SQLite :)