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Searchcode.com’s SQLite database is probably 6 terabytes bigger than yours


’s SQLite database is probably one of the largest in the world, at least for a public facing website. It’s actual size is 6.4 TB.

The largest I could find using any search or LLM was 1 TB (without source), and a few people on HN and Reddit claiming to be working with SQLite database’s around the size of 10’s of gigabytes. However lack of evidence does not mean such as thing does not exist, and so if you do have a larger database please let me know, either by mocking me on some comment section somewhere, or by direct abuse using my email below and I will be appropriately scolded. Sadly the data turned out to be less compressible than my tests first suggested, but it still fits nicely into the storage I have for it with a fair amount of room to grow, albeit less than I had hoped for.

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