This is a comparison between notable database engines for the

MySQL MySQL () is an Open-source software, open-source relational database management system (RDBMS). Its name is a combination of "My", the name of co-founder Michael Widenius's daughter My, and "SQL", the acronym for Structured Query Language. A rel ...

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(DBMS). A database engine (or "storage engine") is the underlying software component that a DBMS uses to

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(CRUD)

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References

External links

MySQL Documentation on MyISAM Storage Engine

MyISAM's open files limit and table-cache problem explained

The article about problems which will occur in using MyISAM
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