MySQL notes
Version support
Django supports MySQL 5.5 and higher.
Django's inspectdb feature uses the information_schema database, which contains detailed data on all database schemas.
Django expects the database to support Unicode (UTF-8 encoding) and delegates to it the task of enforcing transactions and referential integrity. It is important to be aware of the fact that the two latter ones aren't actually enforced by MySQL when using the MyISAM storage engine, see the next section.
Storage engines
MySQL has several storage engines. You can change the default storage engine in the server configuration.
Until MySQL 5.5.4, the default engine was MyISAM. The main drawbacks of MyISAM are that it doesn't support transactions or enforce foreign-key constraints. ...
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