On 5/13/18 12:55 PM, Rowan Worth wrote: > On 9 May 2018 at 08:56, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote: > >> But with >> SQLite, there is no round-trip latency. A "round-trip" to and >> database is just a function call, and is very very cheap. >> > I want to emphasise that Dr. Hipp's usage of "round-trip" only includes the > latency of _communication_ between the app and database in this statement, > and excludes any processing time required by the database. > > If you were to interpret "round-trip" from an app-centric perspective (as > in "the time taken to retrieve/commit data") then the statement becomes > misleading because handling the data involves i/o, possibly even > synchronous i/o, which is not "very very cheap" by any standard I'm aware > of :) > > -Rowan Yes, if the request requires I/O, then that costs time, but then the operation would likely use similar I/O in whatever way the application needed to get that information, so that I/O shouldn't really be charged to the use of a database, but to the information requested. One thing to remember is SQLite is often compared as a better way to get information then using simple disk i/o, so the 'cost' of using SQLite (compared to the alternative) shouldn't include the base time to read the file, but only any extra i/o above that.
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