Why python+sqlite3 is extremely slow?

Question

I tried to process the same request to the same database using \"Python 2.7.4 + sqlite3\" and \"Firefox SQLite Manager 0.8.0\".

On the tiny database (8000 records) both

Answer 1

It seems, that the problem is related with the old version of sqlite that shipped with Python 2.7. Everything works fine in python 3.3.

Thanks a lot to @CL for the great comment!

In python 2.7

>>> import sqlite3
>>> sqlite3.sqlite_version
'3.6.21'

In python 3.3

>>> import sqlite3
>>> sqlite3.sqlite_version
'3.7.12'