diff --git a/plugins/catalog-backend/package.json b/plugins/catalog-backend/package.json
index fcf15e03af..b4aa397883 100644
--- a/plugins/catalog-backend/package.json
+++ b/plugins/catalog-backend/package.json
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
     "helmet": "^3.22.0",
     "knex": "^0.21.1",
     "morgan": "^1.10.0",
+    "sqlite3": "^4.2.0",
     "uuid": "^8.0.0",
     "winston": "^3.2.1",
     "yaml": "^1.9.2",
diff --git a/plugins/catalog-backend/src/database/Database.test.ts b/plugins/catalog-backend/src/database/Database.test.ts
index c375d13fdb..5660d4ae35 100644
--- a/plugins/catalog-backend/src/database/Database.test.ts
+++ b/plugins/catalog-backend/src/database/Database.test.ts
@@ -59,4 +59,20 @@ describe('Database', () => {
       /Found no location/,
     );
   });
+
+  it('instead of adding second location with the same target, returns existing one', async () => {
+    // Prepare
+    const catalog = new Database(database);
+    const input: AddDatabaseLocation = { type: 'a', target: 'b' };
+    const output1: DatabaseLocation = await catalog.addLocation(input);
+
+    // Try to insert the same location
+    const output2: DatabaseLocation = await catalog.addLocation(input);
+    const locations = await catalog.locations();
+
+    // Output is the same
+    expect(output2).toEqual(output1);
+    // Locations contain only one record
+    expect(locations).toEqual([output1]);
+  });
 });
diff --git a/plugins/catalog-backend/src/database/Database.ts b/plugins/catalog-backend/src/database/Database.ts
index ed11f091fe..39e075efb8 100644
--- a/plugins/catalog-backend/src/database/Database.ts
+++ b/plugins/catalog-backend/src/database/Database.ts
@@ -60,14 +60,29 @@ export class Database {
   }
 
   async addLocation(location: AddDatabaseLocation): Promise<DatabaseLocation> {
-    const id = uuidv4();
-    const { type, target } = location;
-    await this.database<DatabaseLocation>('locations').insert({
-      id,
-      type,
-      target,
+    return await this.database.transaction<DatabaseLocation>(async (tx) => {
+      const existingLocation = await tx<DatabaseLocation>('locations')
+        .where({
+          target: location.target,
+        })
+        .select();
+
+      if (existingLocation?.[0]) {
+        return existingLocation[0];
+      }
+
+      const id = uuidv4();
+      const { type, target } = location;
+      await tx<DatabaseLocation>('locations').insert({
+        id,
+        type,
+        target,
+      });
+
+      return (
+        await tx<DatabaseLocation>('locations').where({ id }).select()
+      )![0];
     });
-    return await this.location(id);
   }
 
   async removeLocation(id: string): Promise<void> {