It depends on what you plan on doing; to run WordPress I would stick with MySQL, but since PHP can talk with Oracle through OCI8, you can use this function to make a connection, do a query and show the results (example uses the Resources schema that comes with Oracle Express):
function MyOracleConnection ()
{
$conn = oci_connect('hr', 'tester', 'localhost/XE');
if (!$conn) {
$e = oci_error();
trigger_error(htmlentities($e['message'], ENT_QUOTES), E_USER_ERROR);
}
else {
echo '<p>Congrats: Oracle meets WordPress!</p>';
}
// Prepare the statement
$stid = oci_parse($conn, 'SELECT * FROM departments');
if (!$stid) {
$e = oci_error($conn);
trigger_error(htmlentities($e['message'], ENT_QUOTES), E_USER_ERROR);
}
// Perform the logic of the query
$r = oci_execute($stid);
if (!$r) {
$e = oci_error($stid);
trigger_error(htmlentities($e['message'], ENT_QUOTES), E_USER_ERROR);
}
// Fetch the results of the query
print "<table border='1'>\n";
while ($row = oci_fetch_array($stid, OCI_ASSOC+OCI_RETURN_NULLS)) {
print "<tr>\n";
foreach ($row as $item) {
print " <td>" . ($item !== null ? htmlentities($item, ENT_QUOTES) : " ") . "</td>\n";
}
print "</tr>\n";
}
print "</table>\n";
oci_free_statement($stid);
oci_close($conn);
}
You can then use this function in your WordPress template to do the magic.
You can read more about the use of OCI8 here:
https://php.net/manual/en/book.oci8.php