Other Storage Engines The  EXAMPLE  storage engine does not support indexing. The  EXAMPLE  storage engine does not support partitioning. Other storage engines may be available from third parties and community members that have used the Custom Storage Engine interface. Third party engines are not supported by MySQL. For further information, documentation, installation guides, bug reporting or for any help or assistance with these engines, please contact the developer of the engine directly. For more information on developing a customer storage engine that can be used with the Pluggable Storage Engine Architecture, see MySQL Internals: Writing a Custom Storage Engine. The MySQL pluggable storage engine architecture enables a database professional to select a specialized storage engine for a particular application need while being completely shielded from the need to manage any specific application coding requirements. The MySQL server architecture isolates the application programmer and DBA from all of the low-level implementation details at the storage level, providing a consistent and easy application model and API. Thus, although there are different capabilities across different storage engines, the application is shielded from these differences. The MySQL pluggable storage engine architecture is shown in Figure 16.3, “MySQL Architecture with Pluggable Storage Engines” . 16.10 Other Storage Engines 16.11 Overview of MySQL Storage Engine Architecture Figure 16.3 MySQL Architecture with Pluggable Storage Engines 3432