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:

MariaDB introduces several new engines and is still adding some more for different usages and performances:

In the future, more and more NoSQL engines will be integrated.