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by CharlesW 1283 days ago
> How hard would it be to "add one"/refactor?

From a technical POV: This is potentially straightforward if WordPress leverages (and "blesses", for plug-in developers) a proven abstraction layer like Doctrine DBAL that supports both MySQL and SQLite.

From a non-technical POV: There are tens of thousands of WordPress plug-ins, and even updating the top 1,000 that are good/popular will be a multi-year lift.
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georgyo 1283 days ago
plug-ins are likely the real burn.

MediaWiki technically supports PostgreSQL and SQLite for many years, but extensions are really MySQL focused making it the only real choice.

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