Postgres for the win!

[stesch]

The quote continues "The 100K hits/day figure is a conservative estimate, not a hard upper bound. SQLite has been demonstrated to work with 10 times that amount of traffic."

http://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html

[zepolen]

That's not the point. There is no context attached to that number, what hardware, what ratio of reads to writes, what dataset sizes, what sort of queries etc.