In most cases, it is sufficient if your database runs on the DB in production and sqlite for local development. If it's too big to be able to run on the dev com

In most cases, it is sufficient if your database runs on the DB in production and sqlite for local development. If it's too big to be able to run on the dev computer, then it should use one db across the board. Portability across databases rarely buys you anything but hard to reproduce bugs.