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SQLite would still be a good option. It's incredibly lightweight, and if you set the database to WAL mode it also works well for a database file accessed by multiple applications on the same device.

It has 16GB of flash. Can't you put your database there?

This. Back in the day when we lacked RAM, especially on *nix based systems, it's absolutely normal to use the disk/flash as pseudo-RAM. This was just...a normal part of computing at the time, heh.

Of course, applications would respond shit slow this way, but in the case of a DB it'd be more than fine, no?

Dude database is supposed to be on disk not RAM.

Yes, I understand the content of the database is supposed to be on disk. But for the database to function and do its thing, it needs space in RAM. Like page swap and cache.