Small. Fast. Reliable.
Choose any three.
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  Firebird (1.5.2.4731 Superserver):  165,268 KB     5 s
  
  For the Firebird schema, the IB DataPump reads the SQLite schema creates a Firebird schema with the text fields as memo(), which (my guess) would use more memory than varchar(n) so I redid the schema by hand using varchar(n) with appropriate values of n (since I was lazy, I set n=10 or n= 70 depending on whether the field was large or small).
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+ Some better real-world benchmarks can be found here:
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+ http://sqlite.phxsoftware.com/forums/622/ShowPost.aspx