system.table_engines

Contains description of table engines supported by server and their feature support information.

This table contains the following columns (the column type is shown in brackets):

name (String) — The name of table engine.
supports_settings (UInt8) — Flag that indicates if table engine supports SETTINGS clause.
supports_skipping_indices (UInt8) — Flag that indicates if table engine supports skipping indices.
supports_ttl (UInt8) — Flag that indicates if table engine supports TTL.
supports_sort_order (UInt8) — Flag that indicates if table engine supports clauses PARTITION_BY, PRIMARY_KEY, ORDER_BY and SAMPLE_BY.
supports_replication (UInt8) — Flag that indicates if table engine supports data replication.
supports_duduplication (UInt8) — Flag that indicates if table engine supports data deduplication.
supports_parallel_insert (UInt8) — Flag that indicates if table engine supports parallel insert (see max_insert_threads setting).

Example:

SELECT *
FROM system.table_engines
WHERE name in ('Kafka', 'MergeTree', 'ReplicatedCollapsingMergeTree')

┌─name──────────────────────────┬─supports_settings─┬─supports_skipping_indices─┬─supports_sort_order─┬─supports_ttl─┬─supports_replication─┬─supports_deduplication─┬─supports_parallel_insert─┐
│ MergeTree                     │                 1 │                         1 │                   1 │            1 │                    0 │                      0 │                        1 │
│ Kafka                         │                 1 │                         0 │                   0 │            0 │                    0 │                      0 │                        0 │
│ ReplicatedCollapsingMergeTree │                 1 │                         1 │                   1 │            1 │                    1 │                      1 │                        1 │
└───────────────────────────────┴───────────────────┴───────────────────────────┴─────────────────────┴──────────────┴──────────────────────┴────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────┘

See also

MergeTree family query clauses
Kafka settings
Join settings

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