SQLite faster than MySQL?

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I want to set up a teamspeak 3 server. I can choose between SQLite and MySQL as database. Well I usually tend to “do not use SQLite in production”. But on the other hand, it’s a teamspeak server. Well okay, just let me google this… I found this:

  1. Speed
    SQLite3 is much faster than MySQL database. It’s because file database is always faster than unix socket. When I requested edit of channel it took about 0.5-1 sec on MySQL database (127.0.0.1) and almost instantly (0.1 sec) on SQLite 3. […]

http://forum.teamspeak.com/showthread.php/77126-SQLite-vs-MySQL-Answer-is-here

I don’t want to start a SQLite vs MySQL debate. I just want to ask: Is his argument even valid? I can’t imagine it’s true what he says. But unfortunately I’m not expert enough to answer this question myself.

Maybe TeamSpeak dev’s have some major differences in their db architecture between SQLite and MySQL which explains a huge difference in speed (I can’t imagine this).