Can you have multiple read/writes to SQLite database simultaneously?
<p>I am using Python with SQLite currently and wondering if it is safe to have multiple threads reading and writing to the database simultaneously. Does SQLite handle data coming in as a queue or have sort of mechanism that will stop the data from getting corrupt?</p>

<p>SQLite has a number of robust locking mechanisms to ensure the data doesn't get corrupted, but the problem with that is if you have a number of threads reading and writing to it simultaneously you'll suffer pretty badly in terms of performance as they all trip over the others. It's not intended to be used this way, even if it does work.</p>

<p>You probably want to look at using a shared database server of some sort if this is your intended usage pattern. They have much better support for concurrent operations.</p>

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