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		meritt on June 14, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SQLite small blob storage: 35% Faster Than the Fil... I'm not attempting to compare the usefulness of CSV to a RDBMS. I'm simply pointing out it should be inherently obvious that writing to 1 file is faster than writing to N files, which is the only thing the benchmark is in question is concerned with as well.

rpdillon on June 14, 2017 [–]

The overhead of the database could dominate the gains from only working with a single file. It seems that in some cases, that may not be true.

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