# How SQLite made Notion 30% Faster

DevFeed: [How SQLite made Notion 30% Faster](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-sqlite-made-notion-30-faster-17978.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://newsletter.betterstack.com/p/how-sqlite-made-notion-30-faster>)

Author: Richard Oliver Bray

Published: 2024-11-06T14:00:53Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Hacking Scale by Better Stack](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/hacking-scale-by-better-stack.md>)

Topics: [Notion](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/notion.md>), [SQLite](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sqlite.md>), [Caching](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/caching.md>), [browser](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/browser.md>)

Tags: [browser](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/browser.md>), [caching](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/caching.md>), [let](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/let.md>), [sqlite](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sqlite.md>), [tech](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tech.md>)

## AI overview

This article examines why Notion's page navigation could feel slow with complex content and describes its attempts to improve browser caching. It focuses on using SQLite to cache data in the browser after LocalStorage and IndexedDB approaches had limitations.

## Source excerpt

Notion made a tough bet on emerging tech, and it paid off in a big way