[horsawlarway]

I also find SQLite to be a poor solution for a backend database.

In particular - it makes it incredibly frustrating to manage multiple instances accessing it, and has some very strict limitations around how the underlying FS is mounted.

SQLite is an incredible tool - but the right place for it is in a deployed client application (where - seriously - it's a first class project and is an incredible joy). It's not really designed to be your web db.