Non-Docker downloads are where they have always been:
If you want to use your own database with Docker, then you can. There’s a no MySQL template included. You’d simply install MySQL on the host machine and configure the CMS to use that, however, you loose the isolation benefits.
There’s nothing you can’t do with MySQL inside Docker. If you want PHPMyAdmin then you can have it, if you want console access to MySQL you can have it, so I don’t see what the issue is.
Both methods to access the database are detailed here:
Note though you should not be making changes to the database directly. It’s occasionally necessary when troubleshooting, but it should be very rare.
We’ve not written a detailed guide to install without Docker because it’s not something we can support you with. In the same way as we don’t write guides for anything else we don’t support. If someone wants to write and maintain a proper guide then of course we’ll have that in the guides section, however, most submissions we’ve seen so far don’t setup XMR properly, they don’t setup XTR properly, and so give the user a broken CMS that then causes a load of issues for us to support. I’m sure you can see why we don’t want that! It gives people a bad experience with the software.