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 _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
