Database engine

Software that stores and retrieves data in a database. It may be a self-contained entity or part of a comprehensive database management system (DBMS). See database manager.

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A database engine (or "storage engine") is the underlying software component that a database management system (DBMS) uses to create, retrieve, update and delete (see CRUD (acronym)) data from a database. One may command the database engine via the DBMS's own user interface, and sometimes through a network port.

See also

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

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