InnoDB is a database storage engine for MySQL relational databases, which is used by famous PHP-based web applications such as Magento and Joomla™ v3. It is ideal for scalable applications, because it works exceptionally well when managing immense data volumes. Instead of locking the entire table to import new information into a database like many other engines do, InnoDB locks only one database row, so it can complete a lot more tasks for the same period of time. Also, InnoDB offers a much faster database crash recovery and supports transactions and foreign key constraints – a set of rules that indicate how data imports and modifications should be handled. If a certain task has not been thoroughly completed for whatever reason, the action will be rolled back. In this way, the information in the database will be kept undamaged and won’t be partially merged with newly inserted content.
InnoDB in Dedicated Hosting
Our Hepsia Control Panel is one of the features that you can select on the server order page when you buy a dedicated server from us. As this is the most powerful kind of website hosting, it’s very likely that you will run popular websites that will draw a lot of people, and since InnoDB is one of the very best options for such websites, we will install it along with all the other software applications that come with a Hepsia-managed server. If you create a brand new database in your dedicated server account, there won’t be any active MySQL database engine till you start installing a PHP script, whether manually via your browser or using the automatic script installation tool that is included in the Control Panel. The necessary engine will be detected automatically and will be set for that database, so you can activate scripts that require InnoDB, as well as ones that need the default MySQL engine, MyISAM, without having to cope with any difficulty.