A closer look at the SpacetimeDB v2 benchmark: Is it really 23x faster than SQLite?

The article examines SpacetimeDB v2's benchmark claims of being 23x faster than SQLite, noting that both share the same colocated compute-and-storage architecture, making the performance gap suspicious. The author investigates whether the benchmark's SQLite implementation was flawed and whether SpacetimeDB achieved its numbers by skipping durability, finding that durability was enabled but the SQLite benchmark code itself was likely broken.