Thank you all so much for your data. It will really help me a lot. Looks like I'll be able to use SQLite in ways I had originally anticipated would be out of scope. Well done.... On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 09:06, D. Richard Hipp wrote: > D. Richard Hipp wrote: > > > > Over the past 30 days, the www.sqlite.org website has seen 6 > > separate 10-minute bursts of activity with 250000 hits/day rates > > and many 1-minute bursts in the 450000 hits/day range. Rates in > > excess of 200000 hits/day have been sustained for a couple of > > hours on one event. (Many of the 1-minute and 10-minute burst > > records can be found within that two-hour episode.) > > > > These figures only count hits that accessed the database at least > > once. Images and static pages are not counted. > > > > More data: > > I duplicated the www.sqlite.org website on my desktop then started > hammering on it using multiple instances of "wget -r". I ran the > test for several minutes. > > During this test, every hit involved multiple SELECTs and at least > one UPDATE against a single sqlite database file. The database engine > was easily able to handle a rate of over 2500000 (2.5M) hits/day or > about 30 hits/second. The database did not appear to be the limiting > factor in this test - other components (such as the customized web > server that www.sqlite.org uses and the exec()-ing of RCS commands) > seemed to be what kept it from going even faster. > > So I'm going to revise my earlier estimates of SQLite's abilities > for use with websites. I now believe that SQLite is appropriate > for use as the primary database on websites that get up to 1 million > hits per day. --
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