*** 53,58 **** BDB is probably much faster if you code it carefully. But it is much more difficult to use and considerably less flexible. ! _:: On the other hand BDB has very fine grained locking (although it's not very well documented), while SQLite currently has only database-level locking (a database is stored in a single file). *: SqliteVersusFirebird - SQLite versus Embedded Firebird SQL server --- 53,63 ---- BDB is probably much faster if you code it carefully. But it is much more difficult to use and considerably less flexible. ! _:: On the other hand BDB has very fine grained locking (although it's not very well documented), while SQLite currently has only database-level locking. ! -- fine grain locking is important for enterprise database engines, but much ! less so for embedded databases. In SQLite, a writer gets a lock, does an ! update, and releases the lock all in a few milliseconds. Other readers have ! to wait a few milliseconds to access the database, but is that really ever ! a serious problem? *: SqliteVersusFirebird - SQLite versus Embedded Firebird SQL server