4 ms·

I'd be shocked if this weren't the case.

• bsaul 5y ago
  I guess you must be a low-level developer then, because to application developer it would seem that sqlite write speed is actually bound by the file system performance (which it depends on).
  • harikb 5y ago
    The correct comparison is “SQLite index” is faster compared to “file system inode index”
  • tantalor 5y ago
    The title is a joke, right? It's not actually "faster than the filesystem" unless it's not using the filesystem; it's faster than something else that also uses the filesystem because they use different system calls (context switching).
    • naikrovek 5y ago
      you can be faster than the filesystem, while using the filesystem, if you emulate something the filesystem does poorly in a more performant way. That's what's happening here. storing files in SQLite removes any per-file overhead in the filesystem. The filesystem now only has one file to deal with, instead of however many are stored inside the SQLite database. This is a very real phenomenon, and definitely not a joke.