| Engine | Support | Comment |
| MyISAM | DEFAULT | Default engine as of MySQL 3.23 with great perform... |
| MEMORY | YES | Hash based, stored in memory, useful for temporary... |
| InnoDB | YES | Supports transactions, row-level locking, and fore... |
| BerkeleyDB | NO | Supports transactions and page-level locking |
| BLACKHOLE | NO | /dev/null storage engine (anything you write to it... |
| EXAMPLE | NO | Example storage engine |
| ARCHIVE | YES | Archive storage engine |
| CSV | NO | CSV storage engine |
| ndbcluster | NO | Clustered, fault-tolerant, memory-based tables |
| FEDERATED | NO | Federated MySQL storage engine |
| MRG_MYISAM | YES | Collection of identical MyISAM tables |
| ISAM | NO | Obsolete storage engine |