Re: SQLite's performance -- Can you point to anything that shows SQLite isn't the fastest for some class of query? In my experience (though admittedly I haven't formally benchmarked) it's at least as fast, and generally faster (due to the dramatically reduced overhead to query it over a traditional database server).

Re: SQLite reliability. I'm confused how SQLite isn't more reliable than every other contender, merely given that there is so much less to fail. In 8 years, 2158341079 writes, and probably 100x that many reads, I don't think I've ever had a single failure or bug with SQLite itself.

Re: SSDs -- That's a fair point. Bedrock is not the ideal choice if you are using small volumes and spinning disks.

Re: Security -- I think all databases have crap security that nobody really relies upon. Bedrock doesn't try to pretend. Rather, it gives you a very complete plugin framework, such that you can write C++ "stored procedures" that enforce your application's security model. In practice, we run with the Bedrock::DB plugin disabled, such that the only way to access the database is via our stored procedures -- and those do complete authentication and authorization in an application-specific way that no database could in a generalized fashion.

Thanks for asking!