I am experimenting with SQLite, where I try inserting 1B rows in under a minute. The current best is inserting 100M rows at 23s. I cut many corners to get performance, but the tweaks might suit your workload.
I have explained my rationale and approach here - https://avi.im/blag/2021/fast-sqlite-inserts/
the repo link - https://github.com/avinassh/fast-sqlite3-inserts