Title: Why WordPress doesn't its own database?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Why WordPress doesn't its own database?

 *  [wpreser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpreser/)
 * (@wpreser)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-wordpress-doesnt-its-own-database/)
 * Hi,
 * I’m just wondering why WP doesn’t have its own database?
    Having its own database
   wouldn’t facilitate the backup process and make it easier to manage? Is there
   a reason behind not making WP as a standalone software?

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 *  [s_ha_dum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apljdi/)
 * (@apljdi)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-wordpress-doesnt-its-own-database/#post-2816865)
 * “Have its own database” as in “the WordPress developers should create a database
   server from scratch”? I don’t think you realize what you are asking. Not many
   pieces of software provide their own databases in that way. It is an enormous
   project. Even things you probably consider ‘stand alone’ like FireFox don’t have
   their own database. FireFox used to, and I think still does, use a database called
   SQLite. It is just more or less invisible to you, the user.
 * > Is there a reason behind not making WP as a standalone software?
 * WordPress is a web application written in PHP. That makes it dependent upon 1)
   the web server, and the 2) PHP interpretter, as well as 3) the MySQL database.
   Again, I don’t think you know what you are asking.

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