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Storage engines manage SQL operations on tables. Their availability depends on the edition and version of MySQL. InnoDB is the default and most general-purpose storage engine, and Oracle recommends using it for tables except for specialized use cases.
Note: The CREATE TABLE statement in MySQL 8.0 creates InnoDB tables by default.
For more information, see MySQL Documentation: Alternative Storage Engines.
InnoDB is the default storage engine in MySQL 8.0. InnoDB is a transaction-safe (ACID-compliant) storage engine for MySQL that has commit, rollback, and crash-recovery capabilities to protect user data. InnoDB row-level locking (without escalation to coarser granularity locks) and nonlocking reads that are consistent with Oracle style increase multi-user concurrency and performance. In this solution, we created tables using the InnoDB storage engine.