Hardly, that is more of a hack. There is however a distributed, clustered version of sqlite: Bloomberg's Comdb2. It has the same scaling factors as e.g. percona, can be Geo-replicated (multi-roomed) and has many advanced timing and financial data types. Plus SQL functions can be written in Lua. Oh, and it has super granular serialization guarantees, up to and including full linearizibility.

By using Sqlite as the SQL frontend, it retains features other NewSQL engines struggle with (recursive CTE, deep optimization, compatibility with existing queries etc)