Have you tried journal_mode=wal? https://sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_journal_mode https://sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_journal_mode This lets sqlite read w

Have you tried journal_mode=wal? https://sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_journal_mode https://sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_journal_mode This lets sqlite read w/o a write lock (among other things) Since it stores the log to an adjacent file you have to make sure the process can write to the whole directory containing the db.