下表列出了Mysql 主要数据引擎架构(如myisam、innodb Storage Engine )的特性比较：
| Feature |
MyISAM |
NDB |
Archive |
InnoDB |
Memory |
| Storage Limits |
No |
Yes |
No |
64TB |
Yes |
| Transactions |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Locking granularity |
Table |
Row |
Row |
Row |
Table |
| MVCC snapshot read |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Geospatial support |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Data caches |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
NA |
| Index Caches |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
NA |
| Compressed Data |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Storage cost (relative to other engines) |
Small |
Med |
Small |
Med |
NA |
| Memory cost (relative to other engines) |
Low |
High |
Low |
High |
High |
| Bulk insert speed |
High |
High |
Highest |
Med |
High |
| Replication Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Foreign Key support |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Built-in Cluster/High-availability support |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
Dynamically add and remove storage engines.
Change the storage engine on a table with “ALTER TABLE …”