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But clearly, one of those reasons is the support for flexible schemas. In the RDBMS world, the schema—the definition of the tables and columns which make up a database—is relatively fixed.

Comparison of two database engines: the XA-compliant InnoDB and the read-optimized MyISAM. After the install, the physical DBMS schema choice should be hidden from the administrators who manage ...