After investigating, it looks like there's actually two separate things here: "bedrock" for accessing the sqlite database over the network and "page-level locki

After investigating, it looks like there's actually two separate things here: "bedrock" for accessing the sqlite database over the network and "page-level locking" for allowing concurrent write transactions. https://sqlite.org/src/doc/754ad35c/README-server-edition.html https://sqlite.org/src/doc/754ad35c/README-server-edition.ht... I assume you could use the latter without the former.