I don’t see the analogy, if you’re using it to excuse crashing on small data sets and indexes.

SQLite isn’t small and crashy, it’s small and reliable.

There’s something fundamentally wrong with the codebase/architecture if there’s so many memory problems.

And the absolute baseline requirement for a production database is no crashes.

I think the authors disagree with me, but I see it like a online analytical processing (OLAP) database, not like a OLTP (online transaction processing) database, so crashes are more tolerable.

Agree with your assessment of small and reliable for SQLite. Disagree with your baseline requirement. ACID is more important for me and does not contain `No crashes`.