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One of the biggest gripes I had concerning WordPress when I looked into migrating to it from blosxom half a year ago was that it required me to use a MySQL database. Using a fully blow SQL database for maintaining a blog is just pure overkill in my opinion. Databases of course have their place, but c’mon… Using them to store a couple of posts and comments is using a sledge hammer to drive a nail into a 2mm thick piece of balsa wood.

This has now turned into a real problem. The database performance of my web hoster just isn’t up to par. For some reason the WordPress people seem to have ignored a patch allowing for database abstraction; this would allow me to replace MySQL with SQLite. Hopefully it isn’t too hard to port this patch to WordPress 2.0…

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