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> If you think about it from an attack surface perspective, there are numerous advantages to isolating the database.

The attack surface on PG or MySQL is a lot larger and there are a lot more moving parts than SQLite (which is just a file). Notably, there is no service exposed to the network that someone can attack, which is a huge attack vector with lots of different types of vulnerabilities that don't exist in SQLite.




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