fast-sqlite3-inserts VS sqlite_micro_logger_arduino

I am experimenting with SQLite, where I try inserting 1B rows in under a minute. The current best is inserting 100M rows at 23s. I cut many corners to get performance, but the tweaks might suit your workload.

I have explained my rationale and approach here - https://avi.im/blag/2021/fast-sqlite-inserts/

the repo link - https://github.com/avinassh/fast-sqlite3-inserts

I am working on a project [0] to generate 1 billion rows in SQLite under a minute and inserted 100M rows inserts in 33 seconds. First, I generate the rows and insert them in an in-memory database, then flush them to the disk at the end. To flush it to disk it takes only 2 seconds, so 99% of the time is being spent generating and adding rows to the in-memory B Tree.

For Python optimisation, have you tried PyPy? I ran my same code (zero changes) using PyPy, and I got 3.5x better speed.

I published my findings here [1].

[0] - https://github.com/avinassh/fast-sqlite3-inserts

[1] - https://avi.im/blag/2021/fast-sqlite-inserts/

I have a side project where I tried to insert one billion rows in SQLite. I was able to insert 100 million rows using Python under 210 seconds. The same thing with PyPy took 120 seconds. I am wondering what kind of speed boost I would get with Cython

Measure, measure, measure! There is a PR which made really minor changes, but it got 2x speed boost with CPython version

[somewhat related] Recently, I was benchmarking SQLite inserts and I managed to insert 3.3M records per second (100M in 33 ish seconds) on my local machine - https://github.com/avinassh/fast-sqlite3-inserts Ofcourse the comparison is not apples to apples, but sharing here if anyone finds it interesting

There is a tiny SQLite library for Arduino that works with SD cards. I haven't used it myself, but it's probably easier to get an Arduino right now than it is to get a Pi, so it might be worth investigating.

Potentially interesting:

https://github.com/siara-cc/sqlite_micro_logger_arduino

https://github.com/siara-cc/sqlite_micro_logger_arduino/blob...

This is a heavily subsetted implementation of SQLite3 that can read/write databases (presumably on SD cards) from very small microcontrollers.

It presumably doesn't have the same ACID compliance properties, but with a single <1.5k source file, may represent a particularly efficient way to rapidly learn the intrinsics.

Now I'm thinking it could actually be interesting to see what drh thinks of this implementation (and any gotchas in it) because of its small size and accessibility.