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3 posts tagged #sqlite.
- September 21, 2026SQLite vs DuckDB: every read cliff moved 100x
Same $16.49/month box, same binary, two embedded databases. DuckDB wrote 4x to 15x faster than SQLite and moved every dashboard read cliff by 100x.
- September 21, 2026What degrades when telemetry lives in SQLite
Embedded telemetry stores fail slowly, not loudly: WAL growth, read cliffs, retention, and backpressure, plus the settings that decide each one.
- September 21, 2026How far an observability backend goes on SQLite
A single Go binary writing OTLP metrics into SQLite on a 2 vCPU, 8 GB box sustained 58k metric points a second. Here is the method, and where it stops.
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