SQLite

Embedded SQL database stored in a single file and linked into your app process, with no database server to run.

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Where it fits

Database · Run it yourselfA database that is just a file in your app — desktop and mobile apps, single-server web apps, tests and prototypes.Trade-off: One writer at a time and no network access of its own; backups and replication need extra tools (Litestream, or a host like Turso).

Who uses it

No maker's live product on record yet, and 198 open-source projects that declare it in their code.

Declared in code 198How evidence is collected →

We haven't found a maker's live product that uses SQLite yet — only the open-source projects below, which declare it in their code.

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agents Repo for the Complete Agentic AI Engineering CourseDatabaseIn its code · source ↗

ai-agents-frameworks The ultimate playground to learn, experiment with, and compare modern open-source AI age…DatabaseIn its code · source ↗

atom Atom Agent, Open-Source Governed AI Agent Platform for Self-Hosted AutomationDatabaseIn its code · source ↗

awesome-llm-apps 100+ AI Agents, Agent Skills and RAG Apps - Free and Open Source.DatabaseIn its code · source ↗

beeai-framework Build production-ready AI agents in both Python and Typescript.DatabaseIn its code · source ↗

bisheng BISHENG is an open LLM devops platform for next generation Enterprise AI applications. P…DatabaseIn its code · source ↗

camel 🐫 CAMEL: The first and the best multi-agent framework. Finding the Scaling Law of Agent…DatabaseIn its code · source ↗

CopilotKit The Frontend Stack for Agents & Generative UI. React, Angular, Mobile, Slack, and more.…DatabaseIn its code · source ↗

dust Custom AI agent platform to speed up your work.DatabaseIn its code · source ↗

ever-gauzy Ever® Gauzy™ - Open Business Management Platform (ERP/CRM/HRM/ATS/PM) - https://gauzy.coDatabaseIn its code · source ↗

ever-works Ever® Works™ - The Workshop for AI. An open agentic runtime that autonomously researches…DatabaseIn its code · source ↗

firewall-node Zen protects your Node app against attacks with one line of code. Get peace of mind— at…DatabaseIn its code · source ↗

JamAIBase The collaborative spreadsheet for AI. Chain cells into powerful pipelines, experiment wi…DatabaseIn its code · source ↗

lunora Type-safe, real-time backend framework on your own Cloudflare account — Workers, Durable…DatabaseIn its code · source ↗

MemOS Self-evolving memory OS for LLM & AI Agents: ultra-persistent memory, hybrid-retrieval,…DatabaseIn its code · source ↗

mindroom Your AI is trapped in apps. We set it free — Self-hostable AI stack for multi-user, mult…DatabaseIn its code · source ↗

nao 👾 nao is an open source analytics agent. (1) Create context with nao-core cli, (2) depl…DatabaseIn its code · source ↗

nocodb 🔥 🔥 🔥 A Free & Self-hostable Airtable AlternativeDatabaseIn its code · source ↗

semantica Graph-Native Infrastructure for Context and Accountable AI SystemsDatabaseIn its code · source ↗

youtube_video_code The code for all the YouTube videos I publish on YouTube.DatabaseIn its code · source ↗

appimage.github.io Given an URL to an AppImage, the GitHub action in this project inspects the AppImage and…DatabaseIn its code · source ↗

cherry-studio AI productivity studio with smart chat, autonomous agents, and 300+ assistants. Unified…DatabaseIn its code · source ↗

continue open-source coding agentDatabaseIn its code · source ↗

Open source: a project that declares SQLite as a dependency in its public code — verifiable, but not necessarily a live product.

Alternatives to SQLite

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SupabasePostgres plus auth, storage and realtime in one project.Open sourceFree tier564 makers · database

ConvexRealtime, collaborative apps written entirely in TypeScript.Open sourceFree tier50 makers · database

FirebaseMobile apps that need offline sync and client-side SDKs.Free tier182 makers · database

NeonServerless Postgres that scales to zero, with a branch per preview deploy.Open sourceFree tier95 makers · database

PlanetScaleApps that expect heavy scale and want zero-downtime schema changes.29 makers · database

TursoSQLite at the edge, or one database per customer.Open sourceFree tier13 makers · database

MongoDBDocument-shaped data and teams already fluent in Mongo.Self-hostableFree tier131 makers · database

PostgreSQLThe engine behind most of the hosted options above, run on your own server or container for full control and a flat cost.Open sourceFree tier74 makers · database

ClickHouseFast aggregate queries over billions of rows of events, logs or metrics, self-hosted or on ClickHouse Cloud.Open sourceFree tier40 makers · database

Questions makers ask about SQLite

Is SQLite free?

Yes — it is free, open-source software.

Is SQLite open source or self-hostable?

Open source, and you can self-host it. source ↗

Can AI coding agents work with SQLite?

No llms.txt, official MCP server or CLI found yet.

Who uses SQLite?

No maker's live product we track yet; 198 open-source projects declare it in their code. source ↗