Thread:Project:Support desk/xml version ?/reply

Hi Mav,

I fear not. Making MW run without a DB would be a hugh undertaking and it will cause lots of problems. For example I have no clue what happens with performance, if you want to search some hundred thousand pages for some words, if you only have the content in XML files, or what the performance impact would be if you tried to store each single revision of a page in an XML file. I think the only one who could and actually would have to implemtn a feature with such big impacts on the system in fact is the Wikimedia Foundation. However, they do use databases, so they have no real need for such a feature.