MySQL Storage Engines.. Some basics

December 13th, 2007

Storage engines decide how and where the data is stored and in which way. MySQL storage engines include both those that handle transaction-safe tables and those that handle non-transaction-safe tables MySQL supports following storage engines. MyISAM Storage Engine InnoDB Storage Engine MERGE Storage Engine MEMORY (HEAP) Storage Engine BDB (BerkeleyDB) Storage Engine EXAMPLE Storage Engine […]