Included storage engines

In addition to the storage engines present in MySQL, MariaDB also includes the following storage engines:

  • Aria, which is a crash-safe alternative to the MyISAM engine
  • XtraDB, which is a drop-in replacement for the InnoDB engine
  • FederatedX, which is a drop-in replacement for the Federated engine
  • OQGRAPH, which is used to store complex graphs and tree structures
  • SphinxSE, which is used for full-text searches
  • TokuDB, which provides increased compression and better performance, particularly adapted to write-intensive environments
  • Cassandra, which allows access to data that are in a Cassandra cluster from MariaDB
  • CONNECT, which allows access to external data in different formats
  • SEQUENCE, which is used to generate sequences of numbers ...

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