On Oct 29, 2008, at 4:59 AM, Julian Bui wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> First off, I'm a database and sqlite newbie.  I'm inserting many many
> records and indexing over one of the double attributes.  I am seeing
> my insert times slowly degrade as the database grows in size until
> it's unacceptable - less than 1 write per millisecond (other databases
> have scaled well).  I'm using a intel core 2 duo with 2 GB of ram and
> an ordinary HDD.
>
> I am trying to figure out why some of the other databases (firebird,
> mysql, berkeley db) have provided constant insert speeds whereas
> sqlite has not.

i can tell you firsthand that berkeley db does not provide anything  
like constant time for random inserts into a btree as it's size grows.



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