Re: [sqlite] SQLite in memory

2017-05-19 Thread Wout Mertens
Note that, as I understand it, if you use only a single connection for the CherryPi server, all the threads on the server will be running the queries sequentially. Try using a database connection per thread? On Thu, May 18, 2017, 8:47 PM Gabriele Lanaro wrote: > Thanks everyone for all the tips!

Re: [sqlite] SQLite in memory

2017-05-18 Thread Gabriele Lanaro
Thanks everyone for all the tips! This is all very useful. We are using SQLite’s FTS5 feature to search a large number of text files. There are 50M records in total but they are split across 1000 smaller databases of 50K records each. Each DB is 250MB in size. I am trying to test query performanc

Re: [sqlite] SQLite in memory

2017-05-18 Thread Eduardo Morras
On Wed, 17 May 2017 22:18:19 -0700 Gabriele Lanaro wrote: > Hi, I'm trying to assess if the performance of my application is > dependent on disk access from sqlite. > > To rule this out I wanted to make sure that the SQLite DB is > completely accessed from memory and there are no disk accesses.

Re: [sqlite] SQLite in memory

2017-05-18 Thread Keith Medcalf
On Wednesday, 17 May, 2017 23:18, Gabriele Lanaro wrote: > Hi, I'm trying to assess if the performance of my application is dependent > on disk access from sqlite. Of course it is. Depending on what your application is doing. > To rule this out I wanted to make sure that the SQLite DB is com

Re: [sqlite] SQLite in memory

2017-05-17 Thread Paul
If by any chance you have access to Linux or alike, you can just mount a ramfs and move database file over there. It is a usual file system that lives in RAM. This will 100% guarantee you that no disk access will be made by SQLite. 18 May 2017, 08:18:47, by "Gabriele Lanaro" : > Hi, I'm try

Re: [sqlite] SQLite in memory

2017-05-17 Thread petern
From the SQLite shell (CLI), have you tried dot commands ".backup" to file and ".restore" to a new :memory: DB? That assumes a few things like access to the filesystem and sufficient user memory quota to hold the disk version of the DB. Does that work? The shell dot commands and their syntax is

[sqlite] SQLite in memory

2017-05-17 Thread Gabriele Lanaro
Hi, I'm trying to assess if the performance of my application is dependent on disk access from sqlite. To rule this out I wanted to make sure that the SQLite DB is completely accessed from memory and there are no disk accesses. Is it possible to obtain this effect by using pragmas such as cache_s

Re: [sqlite] sqlite in-memory mode - Is there any limit about the data size using in-memory mode?

2011-09-12 Thread Jay A. Kreibich
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 06:56:50PM +0200, Stephan Beal scratched on the wall: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Jay A. Kreibich wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:29:56PM +0800, ?? scratched on the wall: > > > is there any limit about the data size? > > > > PRAGMA max_page_count shoul

Re: [sqlite] sqlite in-memory mode - Is there any limit about the data size using in-memory mode?

2011-09-12 Thread Stephan Beal
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Jay A. Kreibich wrote: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:29:56PM +0800, ?? scratched on the wall: > > is there any limit about the data size? > > PRAGMA max_page_count should work on in-memory databases. > Isn't there also the limitation that the maximum db size

Re: [sqlite] sqlite in-memory mode - Is there any limit about the data size using in-memory mode?

2011-09-12 Thread Jay A. Kreibich
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:29:56PM +0800, ?? scratched on the wall: > Hi there, > > I just have a question. If I am using JDBC driver to connect to sqlite using > in-memory mode, > is there any limit about the data size? PRAGMA max_page_count should work on in-memory databases. http://sq

[sqlite] sqlite in-memory mode - Is there any limit about the data size using in-memory mode?

2011-09-12 Thread 鲍少明
Hi there, I just have a question. If I am using JDBC driver to connect to sqlite using in-memory mode, is there any limit about the data size? Thanks. Clark ___ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/lis

Re: [sqlite] sqlite in-memory database far too slow in my use case

2009-10-21 Thread Ron Arts
Pavel Ivanov schreef: >> Currently this means adding >> the new columns to my C-structures, writing access functions, and >> recompiling. I don't want to do that, because this means my appl *must* >> be replaced on every database change, and I'd like to be able to >> run different versions of it in

Re: [sqlite] sqlite in-memory database far too slow in my use case

2009-10-19 Thread Pavel Ivanov
> Currently this means adding > the new columns to my C-structures, writing access functions, and > recompiling. I don't want to do that, because this means my appl *must* > be replaced on every database change, and I'd like to be able to > run different versions of it in the wild. I was hoping to

Re: [sqlite] sqlite in-memory database far too slow in my use case

2009-10-18 Thread Olaf Schmidt
"Ron Arts" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:4adac5c1.5010...@arts-betel.org... > Then my program opens a socket, and starts accepting connections, > those connections are long lasting, and send messages that need > a fast reply. Many of the messages result in messages being send > to all other client

Re: [sqlite] sqlite in-memory database far too slow in my use case

2009-10-18 Thread Simon Slavin
On 18 Oct 2009, at 7:23pm, Ron Arts wrote: > because the application is evolving, columns > get added/changed on a regular basis. Currently this means adding > the new columns to my C-structures, writing access functions, and > recompiling. I don't want to do that, because this means my appl >

Re: [sqlite] sqlite in-memory database far too slow in my use case

2009-10-18 Thread Kees Nuyt
On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:37:57 +0200, Ron Arts wrote: >Very true Simon, > >this has been the fastest way so far and I can do around >35 selects/second this way, using prepared statements >(on my machine at least), but I need more speed. > >That's why I want to skip the SQL processing entirely

Re: [sqlite] sqlite in-memory database far too slow in my use case

2009-10-18 Thread Ron Arts
P Kishor schreef: > On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Ron Arts wrote: >> Very true Simon, >> >> this has been the fastest way so far and I can do around >> 35 selects/second this way, using prepared statements >> (on my machine at least), but I need more speed. >> >> That's why I want to skip

Re: [sqlite] sqlite in-memory database far too slow in my use case

2009-10-18 Thread P Kishor
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Ron Arts wrote: > Very true Simon, > > this has been the fastest way so far and I can do around > 35 selects/second this way, using prepared statements > (on my machine at least), but I need more speed. > > That's why I want to skip the SQL processing entirely

Re: [sqlite] sqlite in-memory database far too slow in my use case

2009-10-18 Thread Simon Slavin
On 18 Oct 2009, at 4:37pm, Ron Arts wrote: > I want to skip the SQL processing entirely > and write a C function that reaches directly into the > internal memory structures to gets my record from there. I assume that you've already tested the fastest way of doing this that the standard library

Re: [sqlite] sqlite in-memory database far too slow in my use case

2009-10-18 Thread Ron Arts
Very true Simon, this has been the fastest way so far and I can do around 35 selects/second this way, using prepared statements (on my machine at least), but I need more speed. That's why I want to skip the SQL processing entirely and write a C function that reaches directly into the internal

Re: [sqlite] sqlite in-memory database far too slow in my use case

2009-10-18 Thread Simon Slavin
On 18 Oct 2009, at 8:37am, Ron Arts wrote: > Is there a way to bypass the virtual machine altogether and reach > directly > into the btree and just retrieve one record by it's oid (primary > integer key), > and return it in a form that would allow taking out the column > values by name? Th

Re: [sqlite] sqlite in-memory database far too slow in my use case

2009-10-18 Thread Ron Arts
Pavel Ivanov schreef: >> I use the following queries: >> >> CREATE TABLE company(id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY ASC, name) > > I'm not sure how SQLite treats this table definition but probably > because of your ASC it could decide that id shouldn't be a synonym for > rowid which will make at least inser

Re: [sqlite] sqlite in-memory database far too slow in my use case

2009-10-12 Thread Jay A. Kreibich
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 07:23:30PM -0400, Pavel Ivanov scratched on the wall: > > Is their a way to prepare the query and save (compiled form) so that > > we can share them between multiple connection? > > Yes, there is: http://sqlite-consortium.com/products/sse. I realize this may be a genera

Re: [sqlite] sqlite in-memory database far too slow in my use case (new benchmark inside)

2009-10-12 Thread Pavel Ivanov
> Pavel, > > does the cache work for memory datsbases too? Doh, missed the fact that it's a memory database. I believe in-memory database is in fact just a database cache that never deletes its pages from memory and never spills them to disk. Although anything about size of database cache will not

Re: [sqlite] sqlite in-memory database far too slow in my use case

2009-10-12 Thread Pavel Ivanov
009 1:54 AM > To: General Discussion of SQLite Database > Subject: Re: [sqlite] sqlite in-memory database far too slow in my use case > > On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 07:24:33PM +0200, Ron Arts scratched on the wall: > >> I'm afraid the process of >> constructing SQL que

Re: [sqlite] sqlite in-memory database far too slow in my use case

2009-10-12 Thread Naveen Grover -TP
, 2009 1:54 AM To: General Discussion of SQLite Database Subject: Re: [sqlite] sqlite in-memory database far too slow in my use case On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 07:24:33PM +0200, Ron Arts scratched on the wall: > I'm afraid the process of > constructing SQL queries / parsing them by

Re: [sqlite] sqlite in-memory database far too slow in my use case (new benchmark inside)

2009-10-12 Thread sub sk79
Hi!, Optimizing by hand is one way to go, but it can get tedious with multiple SQL statements requiring carefully sequenced prepares, binds, transactions, pragmas, commits, exception-handling, compiler options etc. For automated optimization, you can try StepSqlite (https://www.metatranz.com/step

Re: [sqlite] sqlite in-memory database far too slow in my use case

2009-10-11 Thread Alexey Pechnikov
Hello! On Sunday 11 October 2009 22:52:29 Jay A. Kreibich wrote: > A bit to my surprise, the difference is even more significant using > prepared statements in a C program. For a half-million selects over a > similar table in a :memory: database, there is a 20% speed-up by > wrapping all

Re: [sqlite] sqlite in-memory database far too slow in my use case

2009-10-11 Thread Jay A. Kreibich
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 11:49:57AM +0400, Alexey Pechnikov scratched on the wall: > Hello! > > On Sunday 11 October 2009 00:54:04 Simon Slavin wrote: > > > Using transactions speeds up a long series of SELECTs because it > > > eliminates the need to re-acquire a read-only file-lock for each > >

Re: [sqlite] sqlite in-memory database far too slow in my use case (new benchmark inside)

2009-10-11 Thread Roger Binns
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Arts wrote: > Will the amalgamated version be faster > than linking the lib at runtime? The SQLite website quotes a 10% performance improvement for the amalgamation. The reason for the improvement is that the compiler gets to see all the SQLite c

Re: [sqlite] sqlite in-memory database far too slow in my use case (new benchmark inside)

2009-10-11 Thread Ron Arts
Are there compile time switches which I can use to speed up selects in memory databases? Will the amalgamated version be faster than linking the lib at runtime? Thanks, Ron Pavel Ivanov schreef: >> I use the following queries: >> >> CREATE TABLE company(id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY ASC, name) > > I'

Re: [sqlite] sqlite in-memory database far too slow in my use case (new benchmark inside)

2009-10-11 Thread Ron Arts
Pavel Ivanov schreef: >> I use the following queries: >> >> CREATE TABLE company(id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY ASC, name) > > I'm not sure how SQLite treats this table definition but probably > because of your ASC it could decide that id shouldn't be a synonym for > rowid which will make at least inser

Re: [sqlite] sqlite in-memory database far too slow in my use case (new benchmark inside)

2009-10-11 Thread Pavel Ivanov
> I use the following queries: > > CREATE TABLE company(id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY ASC, name) I'm not sure how SQLite treats this table definition but probably because of your ASC it could decide that id shouldn't be a synonym for rowid which will make at least inserts slower. > But I'm still looki

Re: [sqlite] sqlite in-memory database far too slow in my use case (new benchmark inside)

2009-10-11 Thread Olaf Schmidt
"Ron Arts" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:4ad19195.2060...@arts-betel.org... > I tried it, and indeed, this speeds up inserts tremendously as well, > but in fact I'm not at all concernced about insert speed, but much more about > select speed. I use the following queries: > >CREATE TABLE compan

Re: [sqlite] sqlite in-memory database far too slow in my use case (new benchmark inside)

2009-10-11 Thread Simon Slavin
On 11 Oct 2009, at 9:04am, Ron Arts wrote: > CREATE TABLE company(id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY ASC, name) > > Then I insert 50 records like this: > > INSERT INTO company (id, name) VALUES ('1', 'Company name number 1') > > (with consecutive values for the id value.) I think you can remove the

Re: [sqlite] sqlite in-memory database far too slow in my use case (new benchmark inside)

2009-10-11 Thread Ron Arts
Alexey Pechnikov schreef: > Hello! > > On Sunday 11 October 2009 12:04:37 Ron Arts wrote: >>CREATE TABLE company(id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY ASC, name) >> >> Then I insert 50 records like this: >> >>INSERT INTO company (id, name) VALUES ('1', 'Company name number 1') >> >> (with consecutive

Re: [sqlite] sqlite in-memory database far too slow in my use case (new benchmark inside)

2009-10-11 Thread Alexey Pechnikov
Hello! On Sunday 11 October 2009 12:04:37 Ron Arts wrote: >CREATE TABLE company(id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY ASC, name) > > Then I insert 50 records like this: > >INSERT INTO company (id, name) VALUES ('1', 'Company name number 1') > > (with consecutive values for the id value.) > > do y

Re: [sqlite] sqlite in-memory database far too slow in my use case (new benchmark inside)

2009-10-11 Thread Ron Arts
Olaf Schmidt schreef: > "Ron Arts" schrieb im > Newsbeitrag news:4ad10a9e.3040...@arts-betel.org... > >> Here's my new benchmark output: >> >> sqlite3 insert 50 records time: 17.19 secs >> sqlite3 select 50 records time: 18.57 secs >> sqlite3 prepared select 50 records time: 3.27 secs

Re: [sqlite] sqlite in-memory database far too slow in my use case

2009-10-11 Thread Alexey Pechnikov
Hello! On Sunday 11 October 2009 00:54:04 Simon Slavin wrote: > > Using transactions speeds up a long series of SELECTs because it > > eliminates the need to re-acquire a read-only file-lock for each > > individual SELECT. > > > > Since in-memory databases have no file locks, I'm not sure that

Re: [sqlite] sqlite in-memory database far too slow in my use case (new benchmark inside)

2009-10-10 Thread Olaf Schmidt
"Ron Arts" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:4ad10a9e.3040...@arts-betel.org... > Here's my new benchmark output: > > sqlite3 insert 50 records time: 17.19 secs > sqlite3 select 50 records time: 18.57 secs > sqlite3 prepared select 50 records time: 3.27 secs > glib2 hash tables insert 5000

Re: [sqlite] sqlite in-memory database far too slow in my use case (new benchmark inside)

2009-10-10 Thread Ron Arts
Jay A. Kreibich schreef: > On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 11:57:30PM +0200, Ron Arts scratched on the wall: > >> I'm expanding my benchmark to test just thaty, but I'm running into a >> problem. >> Here's my code (well part of it): >> >>sqlite3_stmt *stmt; >>rc = sqlite3_prepare(db, "select name

Re: [sqlite] sqlite in-memory database far too slow in my use case

2009-10-10 Thread Simon Slavin
On 10 Oct 2009, at 10:57pm, Ron Arts wrote: > The sqlite3_bind_int immediately gives me an RANGE_ERROR (25). > Is there some obvious thing I'm doing wrong? I notice that your _prepare call puts single quotes around the variable, whereas you are binding an integer to it. But that's probably

Re: [sqlite] sqlite in-memory database far too slow in my use case

2009-10-10 Thread Jay A. Kreibich
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 11:57:30PM +0200, Ron Arts scratched on the wall: > I'm expanding my benchmark to test just thaty, but I'm running into a problem. > Here's my code (well part of it): > >sqlite3_stmt *stmt; >rc = sqlite3_prepare(db, "select name from company where id = '?'", -1, >

Re: [sqlite] sqlite in-memory database far too slow in my use case

2009-10-10 Thread Ron Arts
Jay A. Kreibich schreef: > On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 07:24:33PM +0200, Ron Arts scratched on the wall: > >> I'm afraid the process of >> constructing SQL queries / parsing them by sqlite, and >> interpreting the results in my app, multiple times per >> event will be too slow. > > There should be

Re: [sqlite] sqlite in-memory database far too slow in my use case

2009-10-10 Thread Simon Slavin
On 10 Oct 2009, at 9:27pm, Jay A. Kreibich wrote: > On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 07:38:08PM +0100, Simon Slavin scratched on > the wall: >> > >> Don't forget to use transactions, even for when you are just doing >> SELECTs without changing any data. > > Using transactions speeds up a long series of

Re: [sqlite] sqlite in-memory database far too slow in my use case

2009-10-10 Thread Jay A. Kreibich
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 07:38:08PM +0100, Simon Slavin scratched on the wall: > > On 10 Oct 2009, at 7:04pm, Roger Binns wrote: > > > Ron Arts wrote: > >> So I am wondering if I can drop the glib Hash Tables, and > >> go sqlite all the way. But I'm afraid the process of > >> constructing SQL quer

Re: [sqlite] sqlite in-memory database far too slow in my use case

2009-10-10 Thread Roger Binns
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Arts wrote: > Using hash tables I can do 10 requests in .24 seconds > meaning around 40 req/sec. If you are just doing simple lookups (eg doing equality on a single column) then a hash table will always beat going through SQLite. But if y

Re: [sqlite] sqlite in-memory database far too slow in my use case

2009-10-10 Thread Jay A. Kreibich
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 07:24:33PM +0200, Ron Arts scratched on the wall: > I'm afraid the process of > constructing SQL queries / parsing them by sqlite, and > interpreting the results in my app, multiple times per > event will be too slow. There should be no need to construct and parse querie

Re: [sqlite] sqlite in-memory database far too slow in my use case

2009-10-10 Thread Ron Arts
Ok, I just finished writing a test program. It creates an SQLite memory table and inserts 50 records, then it selects 50 times on a random key. After that it uses hash memory tables to do the same thing. Here is the test output: sqlite3 insert 50 records time: 17.21 secs sqlite3 sele

Re: [sqlite] sqlite in-memory database far too slow in my use case

2009-10-10 Thread Simon Slavin
On 10 Oct 2009, at 7:04pm, Roger Binns wrote: > Ron Arts wrote: >> So I am wondering if I can drop the glib Hash Tables, and >> go sqlite all the way. But I'm afraid the process of >> constructing SQL queries / parsing them by sqlite, and >> interpreting the results in my app, multiple times per

Re: [sqlite] sqlite in-memory database far too slow in my use case

2009-10-10 Thread Roger Binns
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Arts wrote: > So I am wondering if I can drop the glib Hash Tables, and > go sqlite all the way. But I'm afraid the process of > constructing SQL queries / parsing them by sqlite, and > interpreting the results in my app, multiple times per > event

[sqlite] sqlite in-memory database far too slow in my use case

2009-10-10 Thread Ron Arts
Hi, I am building a libevent based application that must be able to handle tens of thousands requests per second. Each request needs multiple database lookups. Almost all requests do the lookups on the primary key of the tables only. So far I have been using Hash Tables from the glib2 library. Bu

[sqlite] SQLite in memory database concurrency model

2008-08-26 Thread Alex Katebi
There is a lot of information about disk file concurrency model. I have not found much information regarding the in memory database concurrency model. Thanks, -Alex ___ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mail

[sqlite] sqlite in memory DB: hashing

2008-02-15 Thread Ken
I'm curious if the authors of sqlite have given any consideration to the merits of using a Hash index to retrieve data for In memory Databases ? Thanks, Ken ___ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman

Re: [sqlite] sqlite in memory

2007-09-12 Thread Kees Nuyt
Hi Alex, On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:19:44 +0200, you wrote: > I have 3 questions regarding sqlite database loaded/used whilst in memory: > > 1. How can an sqlite database file (example file1.db) be >loaded in memory? > (Is this the answer?: > sqlite3.exe file1.db) sqlite3 file1.db .dump | sql

[sqlite] sqlite in memory

2007-09-12 Thread Alex Tabone
Hi, I have 3 questions regarding sqlite database loaded/used whilst in memory: 1. How can an sqlite database file (example file1.db) be loaded in memory? (Is this the answer?: > sqlite3.exe file1.db) 2. How can the in-memory sqlite database be accessed by multiple applications? 3. Can multiple

[sqlite] Sqlite In-Memory

2006-05-14 Thread Ritesh Kapoor
Hi, I've read a lot of mails on this group regarding use of Sqlite in-memory mode, for better performance. Currently we're using file based Sqlite DB and are facing lot of performance issues since the DB file is accessed a zillion times in a single program run. I've decided to try out the in-mem

RE: [sqlite] SQLite in memory database from SQLite (3.x) file database?

2005-07-06 Thread Damian Slee
EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 7:09 AM To: sqlite-users@sqlite.org Subject: Re: [sqlite] SQLite in memory database from SQLite (3.x) file database? Hello, John! > It would be nice to have option that just loads the db file into > memory or otherwise caches the contents w

Re: [sqlite] SQLite in memory database from SQLite (3.x) file database?

2005-07-06 Thread Dirk Theisen
Hello, John! It would be nice to have option that just loads the db file into memory or otherwise caches the contents wholly in memory. Are there any caching options in sqlite that would mirror this behavior? You could set the cache size as big as your database file (via pragma). This shoul

Re: [sqlite] SQLite in memory database from SQLite (3.x) file database?

2005-07-06 Thread John Duprey
Interesting.. can multiple threads share the same in-memory database through multiple sqlite_open()s? From what I can scrape together from the wiki page http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/wiki?p=InMemoryDatabase), it sounds like the best one could do is create the in memory db handle once in the main th

Re: [sqlite] SQLite in memory database from SQLite (3.x) file database?

2005-07-06 Thread Cory Nelson
assuming you open up a :memory: database: attach 'foo.db' as bar; create table baz as select * from bar.baz; detach bar; doesn't copy indexes, so you'll have to remake them. dont think it copies triggers either. On 7/6/05, John Duprey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to load an SQLit

Re: [sqlite] SQLite in memory database from SQLite (3.x) file database?

2005-07-06 Thread Jay Sprenkle
> Is it possible to load an SQLite file database into an SQLite "in > memory" database? If so what is the most efficient method to do this? > I'm looking for the fastest possible performance. Taking out the > disk I/O seems like the way to go. create a memory database, attach the file based dat

[sqlite] SQLite in memory database from SQLite (3.x) file database?

2005-07-06 Thread John Duprey
Is it possible to load an SQLite file database into an SQLite "in memory" database? If so what is the most efficient method to do this? I'm looking for the fastest possible performance. Taking out the disk I/O seems like the way to go. Thanks, -John