1.. _myrocks_intro:
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4Percona MyRocks Introduction
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7`MyRocks <http://myrocks.io>`_ is a storage engine
8for `MySQL <https://www.mysql.com>`_ based on `RocksDB <http://rocksdb.org/>`_,
9an embeddable, persistent key-value store.
10*Percona MyRocks* is an implementation
11for `Percona Server <https://www.percona.com/software/percona-server>`_.
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13The RocksDB store is based on the log-structured merge-tree (or LSM tree).
14It is optimized for fast storage
15and combines outstanding space and write efficiency
16with acceptable read performance.
17As a result, MyRocks has the following advantages
18compared to other storage engines,
19if your workload uses fast storage, such as SSD:
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21* Requires less storage space
22* Provides more storage endurance
23* Ensures better IO capacity
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28   install
29   limitations
30   differences
31   variables
32   information-schema-tables
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