I don't think Sqlite will maintain this position for long. Apps are moving to LSM based storage engines. RocksDB or Badger are the future. Now, you just need

I don't think Sqlite will maintain this position for long. Apps are moving to LSM based storage engines. RocksDB or Badger are the future. Now, you just need to make embedded DB with Sqlite API using rocksdb/badger and sell it as direct competitor to Sqlite. It will be a dropin replacement for Sqlite, written in a safer (hacker hype) language. For more Omph, use Rust as a language for this and create libaries using FFI for python/ruby/node/c#