Simple is exactly what I'm trying to accomplish Nico. It's a pet project to increase my knowledge, yet the high cost of most database options on PaaS providers like Heroku leads me to believe that the users would welcome a [very] low cost simple DBaaS implementation. SQLite also hasn't been in the DBaaS space as far as I can tell, I want a first :-)
Thanks for your thoughts Nico! Ryan Macy On 1/25/12 11:16 PM, "Nico Williams" <n...@cryptonector.com> wrote: >If you're building a small web service, SQLite3 will do fine. If you >want to scale big you might be able to use SQLite3 for some pieces of >it, but you can't scale up a web service to thousands of servers with >tens of cores and one single SQLite3 DB -- that just doesn't work >given SQLite3's architecture. The good news is that in web services >you're constantly rewriting the service, and so you'll have an >opportunity to move to a different solution at the right time, and if >using SQLite3 gets you off the ground quickly, then so much the better >for you. > >On the other hand, you might want to consider horizontal scaling from >day one, in which case you really need to look at databases that >support horizontal scaling. There are quite a few. Most cloud >vendors offer such services and software, for example. For example, >there's Apache's Cassandra, Amazon's DynamoDB, there are NoSQL-type >databases, ... Use the right tools for your problem. > >Nico >-- >_______________________________________________ >sqlite-users mailing list >sqlite-users@sqlite.org >http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
