Can I use the Berkeley Database Engine with my MySQL database?
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Last Updated:
August 31, 2011 9:41 AM
You may use the Berkeley DB (BDB) storage engine in MySQL; however it is no longer supported or installed by default in their certified binaries. As a result, we will no longer be offering support for the BDB storage engine.
We advise all customers to convert their BDB tables to InnoDB.
For example:
ALTER TABLE your_bdb_table TYPE=INNODB;