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InnoDB Architecture for MariaDB Enterprise Server

Contents

  1. Overview

Overview

ComponentDescription
Background Thread PoolAn internal thread pool used by InnoDB to perform tasks in the background.
Buffer PoolAn in-memory cache that is used to improve performance of queries against InnoDB tables.
I/O ThreadsRead pages from disk into the buffer pool and flush dirty pages from the buffer pool to disk.
Purge ThreadsPerform garbage collection of undo log.
Redo LogTransaction log for durability.
Row FormatsThe format used for data on disk.
Undo LogTransaction log for MVCC.
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