diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f714141..79ecfb5 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 ## Unreleased
 
 * Dropped Python 3.2 support
+* Use sqlite:///db.sqlite3 as the default DATABASE_URL
 
 ## 1.3
 
diff --git a/django12factor/__init__.py b/django12factor/__init__.py
index 5cf9dda..9955678 100644
--- a/django12factor/__init__.py
+++ b/django12factor/__init__.py
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ def factorise(custom_settings=None):
     }
 
     settings['DATABASES'] = {
-        'default': dj_database_url.config(default='sqlite://:memory:')
+        'default': dj_database_url.config(default='sqlite:///db.sqlite3')
     }
 
     for (key, value) in six.iteritems(os.environ):