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SQLiteEdge Archive: 4 Local-NVMe vs Cloud Storage & BaaS Cost Comparisons

Compare public hardware specifications and checkout tariffs retrieved 2026-11-12 on SQLiteEdge across direct-attached PCIe NVMe VPS plans, AWS EBS gp3, Supabase/Firebase, Turso Cloud, and PostgreSQL 17.

All SQLiteEdge Cost & Storage Comparisons

  • CMP-01 · Vultr 3.5GHz+ High Frequency NVMe vs AWS EC2 + EBS gp3 for SQLite WAL

    In our SQLiteEdge single-writer queue math, serialized SQLite WAL commits depend directly on iodepth=1 round-trip storage latency rather than parallel queue-depth IOPS. Publicly listed Vultr High Frequency Compute ($24–$48/mo as of 2026-11-12) attaches local PCIe NVMe directly to 3.5GHz+ CPU cores, whereas an AWS m7i.large + EBS gp3 volume ($125+/mo) traverses network-attached block storage hops on every WAL checkpoint.

  • CMP-02 · PocketBase on $10.49 NVMe KVM vs Supabase Pro & Firebase Firestore at 100k MAU

    In our SQLiteEdge 100,000-MAU cost model with active Realtime SSE listeners and 25 GB of relational tables, metered BaaS tiers accumulate per-MAU authentication overages, compute add-ons, and egress charges totaling $240–$490/mo. Hosting PocketBase on a publicly listed Hostinger KVM 4 AMD EPYC NVMe VPS ($10.49/mo promotional rate retrieved 2026-11-12; verify renewal rate at checkout) plus a $6/mo Litestream S3 vault keeps infrastructure predictable.

  • CMP-03 · Self-Hosted LibSQL (sqld) vs Managed Turso Cloud: Row-Read & Write Break-Even

    Managed Turso tiers work well for lightweight edge apps staying inside included row-read quotas. However, in our SQLiteEdge row-volume equations, analytics dashboards or background sync loops scanning tens of billions of rows per cycle quickly cross metered thresholds, whereas self-hosting open-source `sqld` on Vultr High Frequency NVMe ($24–$48/mo public rate 2026-11-12) removes per-row metering.

  • CMP-04 · SQLite 3.46 WAL vs Single-Node PostgreSQL 17: Honest Engineering Tradeoffs

    We recommend in-process SQLite 3.46 WAL on SQLiteEdge for single-region web apps, PocketBase backends, and database-per-tenant SaaS products with moderate write concurrency because direct library calls skip socket serialization and PgBouncer overhead. Graduate to PostgreSQL 17 (sized via PgSizer or deployed on DokployHub) whenever multiple independent worker services perform heavy concurrent multi-core writes into one shared table or require PostGIS/TimescaleDB extensions.