ENGINES

The ENGINES table provides information about storage engines. For compatibility, TiDB will always describe InnoDB as the only supported engine. In addition, other column values in the ENGINES table are also fixed values.

USE information_schema;
DESC engines;

+--------------+-------------+------+------+---------+-------+
| Field        | Type        | Null | Key  | Default | Extra |
+--------------+-------------+------+------+---------+-------+
| ENGINE       | varchar(64) | YES  |      | NULL    |       |
| SUPPORT      | varchar(8)  | YES  |      | NULL    |       |
| COMMENT      | varchar(80) | YES  |      | NULL    |       |
| TRANSACTIONS | varchar(3)  | YES  |      | NULL    |       |
| XA           | varchar(3)  | YES  |      | NULL    |       |
| SAVEPOINTS   | varchar(3)  | YES  |      | NULL    |       |
+--------------+-------------+------+------+---------+-------+
6 rows in set (0.00 sec)

SELECT * FROM engines;

+--------+---------+------------------------------------------------------------+--------------+------+------------+
| ENGINE | SUPPORT | COMMENT                                                    | TRANSACTIONS | XA   | SAVEPOINTS |
+--------+---------+------------------------------------------------------------+--------------+------+------------+
| InnoDB | DEFAULT | Supports transactions, row-level locking, and foreign keys | YES          | YES  | YES        |
+--------+---------+------------------------------------------------------------+--------------+------+------------+
1 row in set (0.01 sec)

The description of columns in the ENGINES table is as follows:

• ENGINES: The name of the storage engine.
• SUPPORT: The level of support that the server has on the storage engine. In TiDB, the value is always DEFAULT.
• COMMENT: The brief comment on the storage engine.
• TRANSACTIONS: Whether the storage engine supports transactions.
• XA: Whether the storage engine supports XA transactions.
• SAVEPOINTS: Whether the storage engine supports savepoints.