diff --git a/haystack/document_store/sql.py b/haystack/document_store/sql.py
index 62243ffb3..7878b92ae 100644
--- a/haystack/document_store/sql.py
+++ b/haystack/document_store/sql.py
@@ -74,7 +74,8 @@ class SQLDocumentStore(BaseDocumentStore):
         url: str = "sqlite://",
         index: str = "document",
         label_index: str = "label",
-        duplicate_documents: str = "overwrite"
+        duplicate_documents: str = "overwrite",
+        check_same_thread: bool = False
     ):
         """
         An SQL backed DocumentStore. Currently supports SQLite, PostgreSQL and MySQL backends.
@@ -89,14 +90,15 @@ class SQLDocumentStore(BaseDocumentStore):
                                     overwrite: Update any existing documents with the same ID when adding documents.
                                     fail: an error is raised if the document ID of the document being added already
                                     exists.
+        :param check_same_thread: Set to False to mitigate multithreading issues in older SQLite versions (see https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/14/dialects/sqlite.html?highlight=check_same_thread#threading-pooling-behavior) 
         """
 
         # save init parameters to enable export of component config as YAML
         self.set_config(
-                url=url, index=index, label_index=label_index, duplicate_documents=duplicate_documents
+                url=url, index=index, label_index=label_index, duplicate_documents=duplicate_documents, check_same_thread=check_same_thread
         )
 
-        engine = create_engine(url)
+        engine = create_engine(url,connect_args={'check_same_thread': check_same_thread})
         ORMBase.metadata.create_all(engine)
         Session = sessionmaker(bind=engine)
         self.session = Session()