Questions
22.2.1: Have any storage engines been removed in MySQL 5.4?
22.2.2: Are there any new storage engines in MySQL 5.4?
22.2.3:
What are the unique benefits of the ARCHIVE
storage engine?
22.2.4: Do the new features in MySQL 5.4 apply to all storage engines?
22.2.5: Where can I obtain complete documentation for MySQL storage engines?
Questions and Answers
22.2.1: Have any storage engines been removed in MySQL 5.4?
No.
22.2.2: Are there any new storage engines in MySQL 5.4?
No, but the InnoDB Plugin
is the built-in
version of the InnoDB
storage engine.
22.2.3:
What are the unique benefits of the ARCHIVE
storage engine?
The ARCHIVE
storage engine is ideally suited
for storing large amounts of data without indexes; it has a very
small footprint, and performs selects using table scans. See
Section 13.12, “The ARCHIVE
Storage Engine”, for details.
22.2.4: Do the new features in MySQL 5.4 apply to all storage engines?
The general new features such as views, stored procedures,
triggers, INFORMATION_SCHEMA
, precision math
(DECIMAL
column type), and the
BIT
column type, apply to all
storage engines. There are also additions and changes for
specific storage engines.
22.2.5: Where can I obtain complete documentation for MySQL storage engines?
See Chapter 13, Storage Engines. That chapter contains
information about all MySQL storage engines except for the
NDB
storage engine used for MySQL
Cluster; NDB
is covered in
MySQL Cluster NDB 6.X/7.X.
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