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Do AI agents pick SQLite?
How often agents choose SQLite when a developer needs database engine — measured across Claude, GPT, Gemini.
14%Pick Rate
95% CI 12%–18%
95% CI 12%–18%
When developers ask an AI agent for database engine, SQLite is picked 14% of the time — ranking #2 of 6 measured across Claude, GPT, Gemini.
Picked 14% Named, not picked 10% Never surfaced 76%
Nobody sells SQLite
SQLite is here as a baseline, not as a customer. It's a community project with no vendor behind it, so there's no page to claim and nothing to buy. It's ranked because it wins a real share of these decisions — leaving it out would hand every commercial tool in database engine a flattering number that nobody could act on.
How this is measured →The rest of the Database Engine ranking
| 1 | PostgreSQL | 47% |
| 3 | MongoDB | 13% |
| 4 | DynamoDB | 5% |
| 5 | Firestore | 4% |
| 6 | MySQL | 0% |