Worker, FrankenPHP, or Traditional FPM: The Transport Is the Same
The PHP runtime argument is real for your application code, but a database client that speaks plain HTTP to a daemon does not participate in it, and here is the code to prove it.
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Shared Hosting Is Back (Sort Of): Why Pure PHP Databases Matter
A huge share of the web still runs on hosting plans where you cannot compile anything, and a database client that ships as plain Composer files is the difference between deploying there and telling the customer to move.
The Single-Binary Economics of a Database
MongrelDB ships as one compiled binary per platform and one shared library per ABI, with cluster and cloud integrations excluded at compile time, and that shape is an economic decision as much as an engineering one.