alt Hacker NewsGitHub is intoxicatingly free hosting, but Git itself is a terrible database. Why not maintain an _actual_ database on GitHub, with tagged releases?
Sqlite data is paged and so you can get away with only fetching the pages you need to resolve your query.
https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2021/hosting-sqlite-database...
This seems to be about hosting an Sqlite database on a static website like GitHub Pages - this can be a great plan, there is also Datasette in a browser now: https://github.com/simonw/datasette-lite
But that's different from how you collect the data in a git repository in the first place - or are you suggesting just putting a Sqlite file in a git repository? If so I can think of one big reason against that.