On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Fred James <[email protected]> wrote:
> This query may be only partially off topic ... I am shall be limiting
> the OS choice to Linux
> I am seeking comment ... why would I not want to use SQLite?  Of course,
> comments as to why I might wish to use SQLite are welcome as well.
> I do have some experience with Oracle and MySQL, and other types of
> databases in general.
> Thank you
> Regards
> Fred James
>

Sqlite stores the database in single file and locks that file on write
so that you can't do simultaneous reads and writes. This would slow
down a system in extremely heavy use conditions. I.e. many
reads/writes per second.
If you will not be in this situation it's a very nice database.

Bill Barry
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