FastAPI - SQLite Databases
Last Updated :
24 Apr, 2025
Python FastAPI is a modern and fast, web framework for building APIs with Python. FastAPI gained good popularity for its performance and ease of use. When it comes to integrating SQL databases with FastAPI, the framework provides seamless support, making it a good choice for developers for efficient data storage solutions. In this article, we will use SQL databases with FastAPI in Python, with the help of detailed explanations, and good examples.
Connect FastAPI with Database in Python
Let's understand how we can use SQL Database with FastAPI, for data storing and data retrieving in FastAPI. Here, in this example, we are using an SQLite database. for creating a database model we are using SQLalchemy, which is very compatible with Python when we are doing database-related development. It requires that you have a basic idea of FastAPI to understand the concept more clearly.
Step 1: Installation of Required Libraries
Before starting to code you need to make sure you have FastAPI, pydantic, sqlalchemy, and uvicorn libraries installed in the system. For that simply run the below command in the terminal to install them.
pip install fastapi
pip install pydantic
pip install sqlalchemy
pip install uvicorn
Now you are ready to explore using Database with FastAPI. Our projects contain only one file main.py. This file contains all the code we discussed in the next steps. as we run our code file, new test.db file created which contains data that we store that we will see in other steps.
Project StructureStep 2: Importing Necessary Libraries and Classes
Let's start by importing the required modules and classes for building the FastAPI application, working with databases using SQLAlchemy, and also for defining data models with Pydantic. so let's import fastapi, pydantic and sqlalchemy.
Python3
# Import necessary modules and classes
from fastapi import FastAPI, Depends, HTTPException
from sqlalchemy import create_engine, Column, Integer, String
import sqlalchemy
from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker, Session
from pydantic import BaseModel