Re: [sqlite] Understanding how SQLite works

2008-08-28 Thread John Stanton
Sqlite maintains its data in a disk file. It only reads and writes to that file sufficient bytes to maintain changes to the database or to satisfy the query. It uses memory to cache data while it processes it and will write changed parts of that data back to the disk file. Fundamentally

Re: [sqlite] Understanding how SQLite works

2008-08-28 Thread Darrell Lee
Igor Tandetnik wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> I understand that the SQLite database resides in memory. >> > > Not usually, no. There's an in-memory cache of recently accessed pages, > but most of the database (especially a large database)

Re: [sqlite] Understanding how SQLite works

2008-08-27 Thread Igor Tandetnik
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I understand that the SQLite database resides in memory. Not usually, no. There's an in-memory cache of recently accessed pages, but most of the database (especially a large database) remains on disk. > Now lets say a database is

[sqlite] Understanding how SQLite works

2008-08-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I understand that the SQLite database resides in memory. I understand that the information in memory gets written to disk, ie saving parts that have been updated/whole database. I have read that SQLite has been known to support up 100,000 concurrent read connections and can support several