InnoDB is the most general-purpose storage engine and is the default engine in MySQL 8, providing high reliability and high performance .
The following are the key advantages offered by the InnoDB storage engine:
- Its DML operations follows the ACID model and transactions have commit, rollback, and crash-recovery features to protect user data
- Oracle-style gives consistent reads and row level locking increases the performance of multi-user concurrency
- Each InnoDB table has a primary key index, known as the clustered index, that arranges data on the disk in order to optimize queries based on primary key and minimizes I/O during primary key lookups
- By supporting foreign keys, inserts, deletes, and updates are checked, ensuring consistency across different tables in order to maintain data integrity
The following are the key benefits of using InnoDB tables...
