Series Introduction
Back in 2016 I decided to write a blog series on InnoDB in hopes that it would help give a good description of the high level mechanics of the storage engine. The main motivating factor at that time was that I knew there was a lot of information out there about InnoDB, but a lot of it was ambiguous or even contradictory and I wanted to help make things a bit clearer if I could.
Now there’s a new storage engine that’s rising in popularity that I feel needs similar attention. Specifically MyRocks, the log-structured merge-driven RocksDB engine in MySQL. Given the amount of discussion in the community about MyRocks, I’m sure most of you already have some degree of familiarity, or at the very least have heard the name.
Now we’ve arrived at a point where this is no longer just a Facebook integration project and major players in the community like Maria and Percona have their own implemented …
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