storage engine
A component of the MariaDB database that performs the low-level work of storing, updating, and querying data. InnoDB is one such storage engine. Different storage engines are designed with different tradeoffs between factors such as memory usage versus disk usage, read speed versus write speed, and speed versus robustness. Each storage engine has an associated table type, so we refer to InnoDB tables, MyISAM tables, and so on.
The MySQL Enterprise Backup product is optimized for backing up tables produced by the InnoDB storage engine. It can also back up tables produced by MyISAM and other storage engines.
See also InnoDB.
See also MySQL Enterprise Backup.
See also table type.