SQLite vs DuckDB on the same $16 box: every cliff moved 100x · Traceway
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Same $16.49/month server, same Traceway binary, two embedded databases. DuckDB writes 4x to 15x faster than SQLite, serves dashboards at 100x the row count, and stores a billion metric points in 10.8 GB.
Full numbers and methodology inside.TL;DR I spent six days working on and running a benchmark of observability data on DuckDB. I've done this with SQLite in the last blog post and I really wanted to see how DuckDB compares on a cheap CCX13 Hetzner instance. The way I've done the measurements is by implementing DuckDB as a valid storage engine for Traceway and then running its benchmarking suite. The benchmarks show that DuckDB's columnar engine is able to query 100x more data points without any major backend changes. The write throughput is also 3x to 15x higher. The result is that you can now self-host the full OTel stack that can handle a large data volume on a pretty small server. Keep reading to find out how I've done the measurements!