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		dietrichepp on June 19, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We’re pretty happy with SQLite and not urgently in... Wordpress does not abstract the database, so migration to SQLite would break tons of plugins. Wordpress is also a PHP application, and it's common to have multiple PHP processes running in parallel, which makes it much harder to use SQLite.

spilk on June 19, 2016 [–]

Wordpress does attempt some abstraction of the database via its various wrapper classes/functions like wpdb, WP_Query, etc. It's definitely not ORM-level abstraction by any stretch of the imagination, though.

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