See the Platform team's planned activities for the next 12 months:
- Configuration database - Revamp our configuration management storage - remove global variables, stop proliferation of new ones, provide extensions means of not adding to technical debt, expand unit-testability
Chad Horohoe is considering " database for normal wikis. Prolly something like CDB for wmf." Timing: "Nothing firm yet. I think we were planning to start it sometime in August/September."