ef="https://www.sqlite.org/draft/wal.html">write-ahead logging</a>.</li>
</ul>

<h2>1. Baseline Performance</h2>
<p>This section gives the baseline performance of all the
databases.  Following sections show how performance changes as various
parameters are varied.  For the baseline:</p>
<ul>
	<li> Each database is allowed 4 MB of cache memory.</li>
        <li> Databases are opened in <em>asynchronous</em> write mode.
             (LevelDB's sync option, TreeDB's OAUTOSYNC option, and
             SQLite3's