On 23 Feb 2005 at 18:36, Nathan Kurz wrote: > But maybe I'm not really understanding the advantages of the in-memory > database. Is it in some way inherently faster on lookups than just > setting SQLite to use a really large cache?
Well the way I think of it is the if you don't need to keep the data for longer than the existance of the program in memory, you could use SQLite In-Memory If you want to persist the data beyond a single running of the application, you store it on Disk I don't really feel that a large cache and in-memory SQLite are really ment to be interchangable uses of the program, I feel they are kinda ment to do different things (Large cache=speed up disk access, In-memory=fast DB access but we don't want to keep the data) I certainly wouldn't use an in-memory SQLite DB if I was trying to speed up access of a Disk bound DB, lots of reading and writing there for little gain IMHO That's just what I thought when I saw it in the docs though :) Sure there is lots of fun stuff you could do if you had the memory
