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> SQLite is surprisingly performant for single node applications even when comparing to Postgres.

In the context of SQLite being understood to be a quite excellent piece of software - shouldn't we expect it to be?

In the context of a single-node, Postgres is overkill. It should not be expected to be competitive with SQLite.

This is almost like benchmarking an in-memory HashMap to Redis and being surprised that it performs well in ideal conditions.

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Yes, agreed on SQLite/Postgres. But I'm going to benchmark RocksDB next and see what the performance characteristics are. I suspect the LSM tree storage engine of RocksDB might perform better since agents are so write heavy when running highly concurrent workloads. After all, you are streaming LLM tokens into disk and fanning them out to subscribed clients.

You might want to start here: https://docs.cozodb.org/en/latest/releases/v0.3.html

That project has 0 commits for 2 years.

Sounds pretty stable

v0.7 with the following disclaimer:

> Versions before 1.0 do not promise syntax/API stability or storage compatibility.

What does that have to do with their research on the exact topic OP was looking into?

Abandoned research of unknown quality is strong signal to downprioritize that direction

Thank you for sharing a benchmark pretty much exactly like the parent comment is planning to do.

Also thanks for the incidental exposure to a DB I'd never heard of before... with a browser-based demo CozoDB may be a good way to start experimenting with Datalog.

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