Any DB that couldn't handle that few records would not be worthy of the name. Even MySQL or SQLite shoudl easily handle low billions of records without trouble.

I would be quite interested to see SQLite do this. (may even try it myself...)

In the past (last time I tried was, I think, a couple of years ago) SQLite always proved prohibitively slow: loading multimillion-row data was so ridiculously slow (even on fast hardware), that I never bothered with further use.

I'd love to hear that this has improved - SQLite is nice, when it works. Does anyone have recent datapoints?

(As far as I am concerned, Mysql and BerkeleyDB, as oracle products, are not an serious option anymore (I am convinced Oracle will make things worse for non-paying users all the time), but I am interested to know how their performance (or Oracle's itself for that matter) compare to PostgreSQL)

In reply to Re^2: Efficient way to handle huge number of records? by erix
in thread Efficient way to handle huge number of records? by Anonymous Monk

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