diff --git a/src/flux/stores/database-setup-query-builder.coffee b/src/flux/stores/database-setup-query-builder.coffee
index fc80d6e8d..e857a70fa 100644
--- a/src/flux/stores/database-setup-query-builder.coffee
+++ b/src/flux/stores/database-setup-query-builder.coffee
@@ -16,7 +16,12 @@ class DatabaseSetupQueryBuilder
     # https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html
     # WAL provides more concurrency as readers do not block writers and a writer
     # does not block readers. Reading and writing can proceed concurrently.
-    queries.push "PRAGMA journal_mode=WAL;"
+    queries.push "PRAGMA journal_mode = WAL;"
+    # https://www.sqlite.org/intern-v-extern-blob.html
+    # A database page size of 8192 or 16384 gives the best performance for large BLOB I/O.
+    queries.push "PRAGMA main.page_size = 8192;"
+    queries.push "PRAGMA main.cache_size = 20000;"
+    queries.push "PRAGMA main.synchronous = NORMAL;"
 
     # Add table for storing generic JSON blobs
     queries.push("CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `JSONObject` (key TEXT PRIMARY KEY, data BLOB)")