You essentially describe the motivation for Stiftung Warentest [0]. They’re massively successful in Germany, and I rely on their tests for many consumer goods I buy. Access isn’t free though, typically costs around 5EUR per test. Coincidentally, they recently tested sunscreen [1].
sqlite is also part of Python‘s standard library. No need to add dependencies, things just work. If you don’t plan to run heavy analytical workloads in your research, sqlite is probably just fine.
Did he also loose trust in OpenAI back when DALL-E exclusively generated images of white males when you prompted it with "CEO"? And images of women when prompted with "nurse"?[0] Or is this just the old google-bashing?
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiftung_Warentest
[1] https://www.test.de/Test-Sonnencreme-und-Sonnenspray-fuer-Er...