Understanding the WordPress database
Typical full stack web development frameworks don't come with a predefined database structure. Instead, these frameworks focus on the core foundation of an application while allowing the developers to focus on the application-specific features. On the other hand, WordPress provides a preplanned database structure with a fixed set of tables. WordPress is built to function as a content management system, and hence, it can be classified as a product rather than a pure development framework. The WordPress core database is designed to power the generic functionalities of a CMS. Therefore, it's our responsibility to use our skills to make it work as an application development framework.
The WordPress database is intended to work with MySQL, and hence, we need to have a MySQL database set up before installing WordPress. On successful installation, WordPress will create eleven database tables to cater core functionality with the default MySQL table engine.
