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There are many useful Storage Engines for MySQL, some developed by third parties. MySQL 5.1 features a pluggable storage engine architecture that enables this, engines can be loaded (installed) at runtime.

You can choose the engine on a per-table basis. There is no "best" engine suitable for all purposes. For more information on choosing storage engines suitable for particular needs, and related optimisation, see our MySQL Storage Engine Optimisation course day.

• S3 storage engine - MySQL 5.1 plugin for Amazon Web Service Simple Storage Service (AWS S3), by Mark Atwood
• Primebase XT (PBXT) - transactional storage engine, by Paul McCullagh (Primebase Technologies)
• OQ Graph Engine - deal with trees/hierarchies and graphs relationally, by Arjen Lentz (Open Query)