See also: SQLite: 35% Faster Than File System

https://sqlite.org/fasterthanfs.html

I think it might be a lot more than that, on Windows and macOS.

Edit: Yeah, 5x boost on Win10. I wish author had included XP for reference!

Edit 2: Author achieved 14x boost with a certain SQLite mode, over Windows 10.

> The third chart shows that reading blob content out of SQLite can be twice as fast as reading from individual files on disk for Mac and Android, and an amazing ten times faster for Windows.