diff --git a/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Database/Driver/sqlite/Connection.php b/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Database/Driver/sqlite/Connection.php
index a14a83f077..7ffe2fd710 100644
--- a/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Database/Driver/sqlite/Connection.php
+++ b/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Database/Driver/sqlite/Connection.php
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ public static function open(array &$connection_options = []) {
     ];
 
     try {
-      $pdo = new \PDO('sqlite:' . $connection_options['database'], '', '', $connection_options['pdo']);
+      $pdo = new PDOConnection('sqlite:' . $connection_options['database'], '', '', $connection_options['pdo']);
     }
     catch (\PDOException $e) {
       if ($e->getCode() == static::DATABASE_NOT_FOUND) {
diff --git a/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Database/Driver/sqlite/PDOConnection.php b/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Database/Driver/sqlite/PDOConnection.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f93d69d5b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Database/Driver/sqlite/PDOConnection.php
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace Drupal\Core\Database\Driver\sqlite;
+
+/**
+ * SQLite-specific implementation of a PDO connection.
+ *
+ * Since SQLite does not support row level locks, we have to acquire a reserved
+ * lock on the database immediately. Because of https://bugs.php.net/42766 we
+ * have to create such a transaction manually which also means we cannot use
+ * \PDO::commit() or \PDO::rollback() for SQLite.
+ */
+class PDOConnection extends \PDO {
+
+  /**
+   * {@inheritdoc}
+   */
+  public function beginTransaction() {
+    return $this->exec('BEGIN IMMEDIATE TRANSACTION') !== FALSE;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * {@inheritdoc}
+   */
+  public function commit() {
+    return $this->exec('COMMIT') !== FALSE;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * {@inheritdoc}
+   */
+  public function rollBack() {
+    return $this->exec('ROLLBACK') !== FALSE;
+  }
+
+}