MySQL Introduction

Basics

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* opensource relational database management system (RDMS)

* main DB of LAMP stack

* default server port is 3306

Storage Engines

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- default is InnoDB

- to see other alternatives:

mysql> show engines;

+--------------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------+--------------+------+------------+

| Engine             | Support | Comment                                                        | Transactions | XA   | Savepoints |

+--------------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------+--------------+------+------------+

| InnoDB             | DEFAULT | Supports transactions, row-level locking, and foreign keys     | YES          | YES  | YES        |

| MRG_MYISAM         | YES     | Collection of identical MyISAM tables                          | NO           | NO   | NO         |

| MEMORY             | YES     | Hash based, stored in memory, useful for temporary tables      | NO           | NO   | NO         |

| BLACKHOLE          | YES     | /dev/null storage engine (anything you write to it disappears) | NO           | NO   | NO         |

| MyISAM             | YES     | MyISAM storage engine                                          | NO           | NO   | NO         |

| CSV                | YES     | CSV storage engine                                             | NO           | NO   | NO         |

| ARCHIVE            | YES     | Archive storage engine                                         | NO           | NO   | NO         |

| PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA | YES     | Performance Schema                                             | NO           | NO   | NO         |

| FEDERATED          | NO      | Federated MySQL storage engine                                 | NULL         | NULL | NULL       |

+--------------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------+--------------+------+------------+

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mysql>

InnoDB vs MYISAM

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InnoDB locks particular row in the table while MYISAM locks the entire DB