python+sqlite3 in memory database

[Denis Gomes]

Yep, I see what you are saying.  I am going to do a bit more research to see
how sqlite3 works internally, ie. cache size, page size, etc, and then
decide if I will need to mess with in-memory databases.

Thanks for your insight, appreciate it.

Denis

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org>wrote:

> Denis Gomes <denisg640 <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> >
> >
> > Hey Benjamin,
> >
> >  Take a look at this website I found about cached and in-memory
> databases.  I
> think the gist of the article is that caching is good if you are doing
> SELECTs
> on data that is frequently used whereas in-memory speeds up
> writes, (inserts and
> updates) to the db as well as querying. Maybe I am missing something?
>
> Well, of course, but there's little point to doing INSERTs and UPDATEs if
> you
> don't write them to disk at some point. You could just have a long running
> transaction which will not write to the database file (though depending on
> how
> you have sqlite setup it may write to a journal file) until you commit it.
>
>
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