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MariaDB High Performance
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MariaDB High Performance

by Pierre Mavro
September 2014
Intermediate to advanced
298 pages
6h 13m
English
Packt Publishing
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Introduction to MariaDB engines

When you use MariaDB, you may not know all of the engines, what they can do, which one is more efficient, and in which situation, and so on.

Comparing all the available engines of MariaDB could take a whole book. So, we're going to cover them here, but just an introduction with some additional information to help you to choose some of them for testing.

The classic engines that can also be found on MySQL are as follows:

Engine

Description

MyISAM

This is a light and nontransactional engine. It has good performance and a small data footprint. MyISAM has good performances for small database access.

InnoDB

InnoDB gets very high performance when the database size is less or equal to the RAM size to be used as cache. ...

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ISBN: 9781783981601