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MySQL Show all Supported Database Engines

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To list all supported Database Engines in MySQL run

show engines;

Example

MariaDB [(none)]> show engines;
+--------------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------+------+------------+
| Engine             | Support | Comment                                                                    | Transactions | XA   | Savepoints |
+--------------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------+------+------------+
| CSV                | YES     | CSV storage engine                                                         | NO           | NO   | NO         |
| 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             | DEFAULT | MyISAM storage engine                                                      | NO           | NO   | NO         |
| InnoDB             | YES     | Percona-XtraDB, Supports transactions, row-level locking, and foreign keys | YES          | YES  | YES        |
| ARCHIVE            | YES     | Archive storage engine                                                     | NO           | NO   | NO         |
| FEDERATED          | YES     | FederatedX pluggable storage engine                                        | YES          | NO   | YES        |
| PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA | YES     | Performance Schema                                                         | NO           | NO   | NO         |
| Aria               | YES     | Crash-safe tables with MyISAM heritage                                     | NO           | NO   | NO         |
+--------------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------+------+------------+
10 rows in set (0.00 sec)

MariaDB [(none)]> 

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