Re:Migrating Graphite from SQLite to PostgreSQL
by obfuscurity_ on Saturday December 14, 2013 @10:50PM
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Nobody ever said it /can't/ be done. I would never have argued against using a real RDBMS. But I've often been guilty of telling folks that SQLite was "good enough".
Installing PostgreSQL as you described is not "good enough". If you're going to bother with that, you need to understand the database enough to tune it properly, setup backups, test restores, etc. There are more considerations than simply installing it from apt-get and then forgetting about it.
If SQLite is cheap to use because it's a single file, well, a sudo apt-get install PostgreSQL and then a few commands to set up the database and user password won't take you longer than 10 minutes. That's what I am arguing. There is no reason why we would use SQLite for heavy loading application such as logging. And I think we can now agree that's indeed true and I think we should promote people to use production-ready DBMS even during dev and testing, because those are the one you are going to use in production :)