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In one of his talks Richard Hipp actually mentioned off-hand that some storage devices allegedly use SQLite under the hood as their storage controller, with the firmware bridging the gap.

(I can't find the video, but his slides are here if you want to go searching - http://sqlite.org/talks/index.html )

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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.

That shouldn't be too hard to get a SQLite-ish system working on the "smart" part of the SSD. What would be the uses cases that you have in mind?

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