diff --git a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-sqlite3/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/sqlite3/__init__.py b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-sqlite3/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/sqlite3/__init__.py
index 986b0c621..bad033b29 100644
--- a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-sqlite3/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/sqlite3/__init__.py
+++ b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-sqlite3/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/sqlite3/__init__.py
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ class SQLite3Instrumentor(BaseInstrumentor):
     # No useful attributes of sqlite3 connection object
     _CONNECTION_ATTRIBUTES = {}
 
-    _DATABASE_COMPONENT = "sqlite3"
+    _DATABASE_COMPONENT = "sqlite"
     _DATABASE_TYPE = "sql"
 
     def _instrument(self, **kwargs):