Database engines or storage engines or sometimes even called embedded databases is software library that a database management software uses to store data on disk and do CRUD (create update delete)
Embedded means move everything in one software no network client server.
In this video I want to go through the few popular database engines, explain the differences between them and finally I want to spin up a database and change its engine and show the different features on each engine
Timecodes
What is a database Engine 3:00
myISAM 9:43
Aria 16:30
InnoDB 19:00
XtraDB 25:30
LevelDB 27:40
RocksDB 34:00
SQLite 38:11
BerkelyDB 42:00
Demo! 47:11
Cards
ACID 4:30
mysql/javascript 56:17
Resources
https://youtu.be/V_C-T5S-w8g
https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/changes-improvements-in-mariadb-102/
https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/why-does-mariadb-102-use-innodb-instead-of-xtradb/
https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki/Features-Not-in-LevelDB
https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/aria-storage-engine/
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