If they have come from GDBM then I can imagine why they went for multiple databases, but this was probably more of a visualisation issue than a technical one.
As Howard said the number of connections is not a factor ... in fact their way will probably require keeping many more connections open to MySQL at a given time.
Requiring rights to create/delete databases is enough of a problem in itself.
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