I’m sure you are aware that the last Percona server release includes a new improved
MEMORY storage engine for MySQL.
This new engine is based on Dynamic Row Format and
offers some of great features, specialy for VARCHAR,
VARBINARY, TEXT and BLOB fields
in MEMORY tables.
But because this new MEMORY engine by Percona has some limitations and because Percona server hasn’t used it for its internal temporary tables yet, I would like to talk about what can be the real benefits to have a brand new MEMORY engine based on Dynamic row format specialy for internal memory tables.
Just remember or discover how MySQL uses …
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