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SQLite is much faster than direct writes to disk on Windows when anti-virus protection is turned on. Since anti-virus software is and should be on by default in Windows, that means that SQLite is generally much faster than direct disk writes on Windows.

Isn't this because writing to a SQLite database file bypasses most (or all) of the antivirus file scanning since it's can't see a complete file, and can only look at raw blocks of data?

So if you find value in having your antivirus scan all of your files, that's a disadvantage for using SQLite to store them?



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