diff --git a/src/CMakeLists.txt b/src/CMakeLists.txt
index 8bf6e32d..ef90d7c9 100644
--- a/src/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ set(CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR})
 # SQLITE_ENABLE_DBPAGE_VTAB: Enables the SQLITE_DBPAGE virtual table. Warning: writing to the SQLITE_DBPAGE virtual table can very easily cause unrecoverably database corruption.
 # SQLITE_OMIT_DESERIALIZE: This option causes the the sqlite3_serialize() and sqlite3_deserialize() interfaces to be omitted from the build (was the default before 3.36.0)
 # HAVE_READLINE: Enable readline support to allow easy editing, history and auto-completion
-set(SQLITE_DEFINES "-DSQLITE_OMIT_LOAD_EXTENSION -DSQLITE_DEFAULT_MEMSTATUS=0 -DSQLITE_OMIT_DEPRECATED -DSQLITE_OMIT_PROGRESS_CALLBACK -DSQLITE_DEFAULT_FOREIGN_KEYS=1 -DSQLITE_DQS=0 -DSQLITE_ENABLE_DBPAGE_VTAB -DSQLITE_OMIT_DESERIALIZE -DHAVE_READLINE")
+# SQLITE_DEFAULT_CACHE_SIZE=-16384: Allow up to 16 MiB of cache to be used by SQLite3 (default is 2000 kiB)
+set(SQLITE_DEFINES "-DSQLITE_OMIT_LOAD_EXTENSION -DSQLITE_DEFAULT_MEMSTATUS=0 -DSQLITE_OMIT_DEPRECATED -DSQLITE_OMIT_PROGRESS_CALLBACK -DSQLITE_DEFAULT_FOREIGN_KEYS=1 -DSQLITE_DQS=0 -DSQLITE_ENABLE_DBPAGE_VTAB -DSQLITE_OMIT_DESERIALIZE -DHAVE_READLINE -DSQLITE_DEFAULT_CACHE_SIZE=-16384")
 
 # Code hardening and debugging improvements
 # -fstack-protector-strong: The program will be resistant to having its stack overflowed