As per the Framework roadmap "For version 2, we are looking at ... potentially consuming a third party database system."

I don't know what has been discussed so far, but Doctrine DBAL seems like it might be a good candidate for consideration as it is an "Abstraction layer and access library for relational databases. A thin layer on top of PDO with a lot of additional, horizontal functionality."

• It has a larger list of supported databases than the current framework.
• It has the desired ability to manage database schemas