InnoDB is a very popular database engine for the MySQL database management system. It’s an alternative to the default engine – MyISAM, and it has numerous strengths that make it the engine of choice for lots of PHP script-driven software applications, among them Joomla™ and Magento, which have moved to InnoDB for good. For instance, adding immense volumes of data will be faster with InnoDB, because it locks only one row to complete a task, not the entire table, which makes the engine excellent for scalable applications. It also supports foreign keys and transactions – these refer to the way in which the information is tackled. To put it simply, appending new or updating existent data will either be entirely completed, or will be annulled and the operation will be rolled back in case any issue shows up during the process, therefore the content that remains in the database will not be damaged.

InnoDB in Shared Hosting

You will be able to make use of any open-source script-powered app that requires InnoDB if you’ve got a shared hosting with our company, as the MySQL database engine is available on our cutting-edge cloud hosting platform as standard. During the app activation – manual or automatic, InnoDB will be selected as the default engine and the setup process will continue impeccably in case this engine is required. You can install apps which use the MyISAM engine without having to deal with any difficulty as well and, once again, the engine will be selected automatically, so you will not need to edit any setting manually at any point. Furthermore, we will also generate daily backups of all the MySQL databases that you have in your account, so in case you erase or overwrite something, we can swiftly get it back to the way it was on any of the previous seven days.