InnoDB is a very popular storage engine for the MySQL DBMS. It is an alternative to the default engine – MyISAM, and it has got a number of strengths which make it the preferred engine for plenty of PHP-driven applications, such as Magento and Joomla™, which have switched over to InnoDB for good. For instance, adding huge volumes of data will be much faster with InnoDB, as it locks only a single database row to perform a task, not the entire database table, which makes the engine ideal for scalable apps. It also supports foreign keys and transactions – these refer to the way in which the data is handled. In simpler words, adding new or editing existent data will either be fully completed, or will be aborted and the operation will be rolled back if a given issue appears in the meantime, thus the content that remains in the database won’t be damaged.
InnoDB in Shared Hosting
Any PHP script-powered software app that needs InnoDB will run impeccably on our cutting-edge cloud website hosting platform and the database storage engine comes with all our shared hosting packages. Whenever you create a MySQL database manually or our app installer tool creates one automatically and an app installation process is initiated, the engine that the database will make use of will be selected on the basis of the app’s requirements without having to configure any setting in your hosting account. InnoDB will be selected automatically for any app that requires this particular engine and you will be able to take advantage of its full capacity. We’ll create daily backups of your content, so if you unintentionally remove a database that you need or you overwrite a certain part of it, we will be able to restore everything the way it was only several hours earlier.
InnoDB in Dedicated Servers
If you purchase a new dedicated server, you will be able to pick one of the 3 Control Panels offered by us – Hepsia and cPanel. Each server ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel comes with InnoDB pre-installed, so you will not have to add this MySQL database engine manually in order to be able to use PHP script-powered software applications that need it. InnoDB is used for scalable apps and since a dedicated server will give you all the server resources that you require in order to run very large sites, it is pretty likely that you will use InnoDB. You’ll be able to make use of other engines too, so in case a specific app requires MyISAM instead of InnoDB, you won’t run into any difficulty while managing it. The engine that will be used will be recognized automatically as soon as the app installation procedure starts, so you will not have to edit any setting manually at any time.