That sounds so impressive I googled it. It's actually 6 billion queries per second: https://id.cloud-ace.com/how-youtube-uses-bigtable-to-power-one-of-the-worl

That sounds so impressive I googled it. It's actually 6 billion queries per second: https://id.cloud-ace.com/how-youtube-uses-bigtable-to-power-one-of-the-worlds-largest-streaming-services/ https://id.cloud-ace.com/how-youtube-uses-bigtable-to-power-... But then I mulled over it for a while, and it occurred to me it's likely Sqlite does orders of magnitude more than that planet wide. Spanner's 1 billion per second is more impressive: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/how-spanner-and-bigquery-work-together-handle-transactional-and-analytical-workloads https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioner..., assuming it's returning a consistent view across many tables. But the Sqlite comparison still stands. Visa claims 24,000 TPS, but in reality runs at a 10'th of that. It would be interesting to see if Spanner could process the same 2,000 transactions per second. Sqlite definitely can't.