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		TazeTSchnitzel on May 23, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SQLite improves performance with memory-mapped I/O... More likely, the code is poorly written and heavily reliant on MySQL.

jacques_chester on May 24, 2013 [–]

This 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.

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