> I have not heard of any cases of SQLite failure in phone, or anyone needing a DB admin to recover their phone contact data.

For a long time (until API level 11), Android automatically silently deleted corrupted SQLite databases. https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/12388#33896 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7764943

I learned the hard way to limit SMS storage and install Jan Berkel's SMS Backup+ https://github.com/jberkel/sms-backup-plus/#readme after losing my first Android SMS database (this may or may not have been SQLite's fault).

https://www.sqlite.org/howtocorrupt.html#_bugs_in_sqlite