> Especially since launching postgres is equally easy and fast as sqlite It's definitely not as fast to start postgres as it is to start sqlite. Pretty much in

> Especially since launching postgres is equally easy and fast as sqlite It's definitely not as fast to start postgres as it is to start sqlite. Pretty much inherently - postgres has to fork a bunch of processes, establishes network connectivity etc. And running trivial queries will always be faster with sqlite, because executing queries via postgres will require intra-process context switches. That's not to say postgres is bad (I've worked on it for most of my career), but there just are inherent advantages and disadvantages of in-process databases vs out-of-process databases. And lower startup time and lower "dispatch" overhead are advantages of in-process databases.