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It's been my experience that most native English speakers say/write "an" when the word after it starts with an "ess" sound, as in the case of acronyms which start with S. When pronouncing SQL like "sequel" they'll normally say "a sequel server" or "a SOCKS server," but when spelling out the acronym they tend to say "an S.Q.L. server" or "an S.O.C.K.S. server." SQLite is typically pronounced Ess-Queue-Light, so i'd argue that "an" is the more conventional way to say it.

Whether that's *pedantically correct* or not, i cannot say, but it's how most native speakers speak/write.