We have less flexibility with WordPress built-in databases compared with designing a database from scratch. Limitations and features unique to WordPress need to be understood clearly to make full use of the framework and avoid potential bottlenecks. Let's find out some of the WordPress-specific features and their usage in web applications.
In advanced applications, we can have multiple database queries that need to be executed inside a single process. We have to make sure that either all the queries get executed successfully or none of them gets executed to maintain the consistency of the data. This process is known as transaction management in application development. In simple website development, we rarely get such requirements for handling transactions. As mentioned earlier, MySQL Version 5.5 and onwards use InnoDB as the table engine and hence we have the possibility of implementing transaction support. However, WordPress doesn't offer...