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DNF doesn't use them at all, and hopefully not many people use Yum.
This should probably be behind a config option for products that do still use yum as a package manager.
While a config option for this might be useful, note that even yum will accept a repo without databases, so they are never actually required to the best of my knowledge. (tested on RHEL 6 with a --no-database createrepo generated repo).
I asked in #yum channel and was told that the database is basically an internal format that yum is using to work with the repodata. If it's missing, yum has to convert the XML into the database, which can take a while.
PR 951 now has a patch for this issue as well.
Commit b4e746a fixes this issue
Metadata Update from @lsedlar: - Issue tagged with: 4.1.25
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