Well, that was my original question to the the parent poster, too. You can achieve 100k+ /sec, but they went looking for better performance, apparently. But t

Well, that was my original question to the the parent poster, too. You can achieve 100k+ /sec, but they went looking for better performance, apparently. But to answer your question at face value, one common use for SQLite is as a file format for complex desktop apps, or perhaps a game save format for certain types of games (mostly the non-realtime types). One great advantage to this is that if you use a DB migration library, you ensure backwards compatibility with previous versions of your saved files. However, it's easy to imagine a fair bit of data getting inserted into such a new file each time it is created. It might only be 5000 rows, but I'd prefer to not have to wait 5 seconds just to persist it, if a single change can make it 0.05 seconds.