Django persistent database connection

I’m using django with apache and mod_wsgi and PostgreSQL (all on same host), and I need to handle a lot of simple dynamic page requests (hundreds per second). I faced with problem that the bottleneck is that a django don’t have persistent database connection and reconnects on each requests (that takes near 5ms).
While doing a benchmark I got that with persistent connection I can handle near 500 r/s while without I get only 50 r/s.

SQLite Performance Benchmark — why is :memory: so slow…only 1.5X as fast as disk?

Why is :memory: in sqlite so slow? I’ve been trying to see if there are any performance improvements gained by using in-memory sqlite vs. disk based sqlite. Basically I’d like to trade startup time and memory to get extremely rapid queries which do not hit disk during the course of the application. However, the following … Read more

SELECT rows between two datetimes when the range is dynamic

I’m trying to select rows that fall into a certain date range from my database table. The range is determined dynamically by the user. In my database I have a column called “dateAndTime”. It has dates stored into it in this format: 2021-06-01 19:37:00 I’m trying to select the rows with this: function getEventsByDateRange(){ $eventType … Read more