I would pay good money to be able to talk directly to their SQLite, without any abstraction layer inbetween, to get some extra performance/lower latency - and I

I would pay good money to be able to talk directly to their SQLite, without any abstraction layer inbetween, to get some extra performance/lower latency - and I don't think I'm alone. In fact, even if it wasn't SQLite but something non standard, I'd be interested in learning it and trying to make it work with my needs.