MySQL allows you to specify database engines at the table level, so they are sometimes referred to as table formats. The following sample code shows how to create tables that use the MyISAM, ISAM ...

MySQL encourages developers to study the source code it makes available on its Web site including the MyISAM or InnoDB code and then build their own database engines, he said.

When MySQL 5.5 switched its underlying storage engine MyISAM to another, InnoDB, it drew questions and created some confusion about the foundation of this database. Certainly, the choice of a storage ...

With Deep Engine, multiple threads allow MySQL to outperform enterprise-grade hosted solutions, such as Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service).

Database tools provider Tokutek has updated its MySQL storage engine to support live updating of schemas, the company announced Wednesday. Taking a database offline to update the schema can be too ...

While the larger MySQL code base remains open source, the new engine will be proprietary and can only be used inside Oracle’s cloud. It won’t be able, at least for now, to be installed locally.

What database engine offered by MySQL do you guys recommend that I use for storing sessions? Note that the sessions table will need to be replicated. I'm leaning towards MyISAM.

According to Amazon, the Aurora MySQL database engine adds storage in 10GB increments or on an as-needed basis with a maximum storage capacity of 64TB. It scales linearly as more data is added ...