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Choose DuckDB rather than SQLite
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A developer benchmarked DuckDB against SQLite for observability data storage, finding that DuckDB offers significantly higher write throughput and query capacity. The results suggest that DuckDB is a viable, high-performance alternative for self-hosting data stacks on limited hardware.
Same $16.49/month server, same Traceway binary, two embedded databases. DuckDB writes 4x to 15x faster than SQLite, serves dashboards at 100x the row count, and stores a billion metric points in 10.8 GB. Full numbers and methodology inside.
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