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## 15.1 Introduction to InnoDB 

InnoDB  is a general-purpose storage engine that balances high reliability and high performance. In MySQL 8.0, InnoDB  is the default MySQL storage engine. Unless you have configured a different default storage engine, issuing a CREATE TABLE  statement without an ENGINE  clause creates an InnoDB  table. 

