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What are the unique benefits of the ARCHIVE Storage Engine?
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The ARCHIVE Storage Engine, added in MySQL 4.1, is ideally suited for storing large amounts of data (without indexes) in a very small footprint, and selects using table scans. See http://dev.mysql .com/doc/mysql /en/archive-storage-engine.html for details.

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