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SQLite's safe mode is not comparable to LMDB's; SQLite is vulnerable to silent data loss in a crash.

https://wisdom.cs.wisc.edu/workshops/spring-14/talks/Thanu.p...

LMDB is not.

Isn't this from the paper "all filesystems are not created equal"? [1] If you search the tables for "sqlite-wal" you will see that it shows zero vulnerabilities.

[1] https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/osdi14/osdi14...

Ah, the earlier result was for SQLite-rollback, their default mode. IMO any DB should default to its safest mode.

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