Database engine

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A database engine is the underlying component that a Database Management System (DBMS) uses to create, retrieve, update and delete (CRUD) data from a database. One may command the database engine via the DBMS's own user interface, and sometimes through a network port.

[edit] See also

• Btrieve's Micro-Kernel Database Engine
• FLAIM Database Engine
• Falcon
• InnoDB
• Microsoft Jet Database Engine
• MyISAM
• MySQL Cluster, on the NDB storage engine of MySQL