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FerretDB is written in Go, can be used as a Go library, and you could call it from C via CGo… But I would not do that :)

Haha. The thought process behind using Go was probably like: "Great! SQLite is written in C. That means I can write my library in Go! And use microservices!"

FWIW, we use a version of SQLite transpiled into Go to avoid CGo problems: https://gitlab.com/cznic/sqlite

You can run the underlying single static binary as a service any non-docker way you like.

Your applications would be talking to it over a socket using a known and documented protocol so the implementation language isn't something the client code should be expected to need to care about at all.

Given those two facts, I genuinely don't understand what your concerns are here?

It's mostly meant as a service. This is a great application for Go.