I think it blocks on write for 'the smallest possible time' (its does as much of the data change preparation as possible before locking the database). If you a

I think it blocks on write for 'the smallest possible time' (its does as much of the data change preparation as possible before locking the database). If you are just using it as a single user for generating excel style reports then this doesn't really matter. I have been thinking for a while that if I had to export a significant amount of data from an app for a tech savvy audience, I would probably send it out in an Sqlite DB instead of XML.