Historically Perl was a Unix language and the core modules reflect (to some extent) it's heritage. I think Berkeley DB (as mentioned by Hardburn) is supported on most (all?) Unixen whereas you would not expect other databases to be there. Most of the places where I run Perl (Unix boxes for $$$ companies and govt institutions) don't run any databases and never will. I would guess that is the normal situation rather than the exception.
Note I'm not arguing in favour of DBI/DBD not being included in the future, just speculating as to why they haven't been up to now. I will trust the Perl dev process to decide if they should be included :)
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