Why DuckDB Outperforms SQLite by 100x on the Same $16 Server
Choose DuckDB rather than SQLite
I benchmarked DuckDB against SQLite on a single $16 Hetzner server running Traceway. The results show DuckDB writes logs fifteen times faster and handles one hundred times more data rows before performance cliffs hit. This columnar engine allows self-hosting a full OpenTelemetry stack at massive scale without needing complex client-server databases.
Each signal's read cliff sits exactly 100x further out on DuckDB than on SQLite, at equal or better latency, on identical hardware.