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phpBB2 supported about half a dozen databases in its initial setup, and that was available several years ago.

I'd be happy if xF would natively support the Sphinx search engine, as that is what drains our resources on our "big board" forum during peak hours.  Sphinx searches are lightning fast, updated every couple of minutes via cron, and saving us from needing a server upgrade we can't afford.  We had a long running Sphinx thread at vb.org detailing all that we did, and a lot of us are still a bit miffed at vB for not offering native Sphinx support built in.  That is the single reason we will not upgrade our forum to vB4 at this point.  (Then again, when the feature set here gets more robust, I'll probably switch over to xF anyway.  )