diff --git a/apps/electron-backend/src/app/workers/database.worker-connection.ts b/apps/electron-backend/src/app/workers/database.worker-connection.ts
index 8e6d79d78..6c883560a 100644
--- a/apps/electron-backend/src/app/workers/database.worker-connection.ts
+++ b/apps/electron-backend/src/app/workers/database.worker-connection.ts
@@ -80,6 +80,10 @@ export async function getWorkerDatabase(): Promise<AppDatabase> {
     sqlite.pragma('foreign_keys = ON');
     sqlite.pragma('journal_mode = WAL');
     sqlite.pragma('busy_timeout = 5000');
+    sqlite.pragma('synchronous = NORMAL');
+    sqlite.pragma('cache_size = -64000');
+    sqlite.pragma('temp_store = MEMORY');
+    sqlite.pragma('mmap_size = 268435456');
 
     if (isSqlTraceEnabled()) {
         trace('sql-worker', 'open', {
diff --git a/libs/shared/database/src/lib/connection.ts b/libs/shared/database/src/lib/connection.ts
index 9ca1e003b..6c632ec3f 100644
--- a/libs/shared/database/src/lib/connection.ts
+++ b/libs/shared/database/src/lib/connection.ts
@@ -527,8 +527,13 @@ export async function initDatabase(
 
         if (!readonly) {
             sqlite.pragma('journal_mode = WAL');
+            sqlite.pragma('synchronous = NORMAL');
         }
 
+        sqlite.pragma('cache_size = -64000');
+        sqlite.pragma('temp_store = MEMORY');
+        sqlite.pragma('mmap_size = 268435456');
+
         // Create tables only for read-write connections
         if (!readonly && !skipTableCreation) {
             createTables(sqlite);