Sadly, another baseless assumption. I just downloaded sqlite java driver from https://github.com/xerial/sqlite-jdbc/. And compiled their sample program on the home page (creates db with table and some rows) to native code. I did all this within ~2min after reading your response.

Its very, very hip nowadays to worship Rust/Go and bash Java and gain HN karma from the younger generation while doing so, but at-least do it on real facts and not assumptions.

    javac Sample.java && native-image -cp .:sqlite-jdbc-3.41.2.1.jar Sample 
    ./sample                                                                                                       
    name = leo
    id = 1
    name = yui
    id = 2    
    ls -al sample.db                                                                                               
    -rw-r--r--  1 OMIT  OMIT  8192 Apr  1 22:22 sample.db