Hacker News Reader

That sounds like a leadership problem rather than an indictment of sqlite

No, it's pretty much an sqlite problem. As good as it is for limited concurrency situations (and synthetic benchmarks like this expensify blog), it does not compare to mysql or postgres for mediating hundreds or thousands of transactions per second.

One of the current Hacker News shibboleths:

If SQLite is not the solution, change the problem.

Haha too true !

If I may add:

World: "We solved Cold Fusion !"

HN: "Meh"

World: "We solved Cold Fusion in RUST !"

HN: "Shuttup you demi-god of tech and take my upvote !"

Maybe, maybe not, but that wasn't the claim here. It was just a shitty argument against sqlite, one that could equally apply to mysql, lisp, questdb, apl, and a host of other tech if it were valid. Organizations choose tech stacks for a ton of reasons, most of which are only loosely related to performance and maintenance characteristics. The (proposed) fact that most organizations don't scale out sqlite doesn't say much at all about whether doing so I'd a good idea.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com