SQLite is when the data is a little too big for your approach, but not worth the hassle of installing/running/managing a database process. The flat files metho

SQLite is when the data is a little too big for your approach, but not worth the hassle of installing/running/managing a database process. The flat files method may lead to partial or empty files in certain failure cases (crash during writes) that may or may not be more gracefully handled by SQLite.