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I think WordPress just tries to cut complexity by using MySQL only so it doesn't have to deal with support for arbitrary RDBMS's.
by techtalsky 13y ago
I think WordPress just tries to cut complexity by using MySQL only so it doesn't have to deal with support for arbitrary RDBMS's.
- TazeTSchnitzel 13y agoMore likely, the code is poorly written and heavily reliant on MySQL.
- jacques_chester 13y agoThis is more or less the correct answer for Wordpress-the-ecosystem. Wordpress-the-base-install has a thin abstraction layer over the database in the $wpdb object. But plugins and themes can, and regularly do, use PHP's MySQL functions to access and manipulate the DB directly.