FST Wins Over SQLite in One Developer’s Experiment

A developer swapped a 3 GB SQLite database for a 10 MB finite‑state transducer binary and cut storage by 99.7%. The change was posted on Hacker News under the title Replacing a 3 GB SQLite db with a 10 MB FST (finite …

The original post links to a personal blog where the author describes extracting a static dictionary from a mobile app and compiling it into an FST. The author notes that the SQLite file occupied three gigabytes on di…

The community response focused on the trade‑off between flexibility and size. Several commenters praised the space savings for embedded devices, while others warned that the FST format is read‑only and unsuitable for …