[benediktwerner]

I mean, you might still be right but I'd rather suspect that they didn't consider somebody running SQLite over S3 with 100ms latency ...

Presumably, it is faster on a saner filesystem.

[electroly]

Spatial locality matters on all storage systems, the timescales are just different magnitudes. The filesystem cache and making the most from each page you read from disk still makes a difference, you're just not measuring the delay with your wristwatch when it's local SSDs.