SHOW [STORAGE] ENGINES

SHOW ENGINES muestra su información de estado acerca del motor de almacenamiento. Esto es particularmente útil para chequear si un motor de almacenamiento se soporta, o para ver si el motr es. SHOW TABLE TYPES es un sinónimo obsoleto.

mysql> SHOW ENGINES\G
*************************** 1. row ***************************
Engine: MyISAM
Support: DEFAULT
Comment: Default engine as of MySQL 3.23 with great performance
*************************** 2. row ***************************
Engine: MEMORY
Support: YES
Comment: Hash based, stored in memory, useful for temporary tables
*************************** 3. row ***************************
Engine: HEAP
Support: YES
Comment: Alias for MEMORY
*************************** 4. row ***************************
Engine: MERGE
Support: YES
Comment: Collection of identical MyISAM tables
*************************** 5. row ***************************
Engine: MRG_MYISAM
Support: YES
Comment: Alias for MERGE
*************************** 6. row ***************************
Engine: ISAM
Support: NO
Comment: Obsolete storage engine, now replaced by MyISAM
*************************** 7. row ***************************
Engine: MRG_ISAM
Support: NO
Comment: Obsolete storage engine, now replaced by MERGE
*************************** 8. row ***************************
Engine: InnoDB
Support: YES
Comment: Supports transactions, row-level locking, and foreign keys
*************************** 9. row ***************************
Engine: INNOBASE
Support: YES
Comment: Alias for INNODB
*************************** 10. row ***************************
Engine: BDB
Support: YES
Comment: Supports transactions and page-level locking
*************************** 11. row ***************************
Engine: BERKELEYDB
Support: YES
Comment: Alias for BDB
*************************** 12. row ***************************
Engine: NDBCLUSTER
Support: NO
Comment: Clustered, fault-tolerant, memory-based tables
*************************** 13. row ***************************
Engine: NDB
Support: NO
Comment: Alias for NDBCLUSTER
*************************** 14. row ***************************
Engine: EXAMPLE
Support: NO
Comment: Example storage engine
*************************** 15. row ***************************
Engine: ARCHIVE
Support: YES
Comment: Archive storage engine
*************************** 16. row ***************************
Engine: CSV
Support: NO
Comment: CSV storage engine
*************************** 17. row ***************************
Engine: FEDERATED
Support: YES
Comment: Federated MySQL storage engine
*************************** 18. row ***************************
Engine: BLACKHOLE
Support: YES
Comment: /dev/null storage engine (anything you write to it disappears)

Un valor Support indica si el motor se soporta, y cuál está activo por defecto. Por ejemplo, si el servidor se arranca con la opción --default-table-type=InnoDB, el valor Support para el registro InnoDB tiene el valor DEFAULT.