MySQL 5 Storage Engines — DatabaseJournal.com

内容を全然読んでいませんが、CSVというstorage engineって、CSVファイルそのものをMySQLから扱う機能だったりするんだろうか?だとしたら面白すぎるんですが。:-)

MySQL 5 offers a number of new storage engines (previously called 
table types). In addition to the default MyISAM storage engine, 
and the InnoDB, BDB, HEAP and MERGE storage engines, there are 
four new types: CSV, ARCHIVE, FEDERATED and EXAMPLE, as well as a 
new name for the HEAP storage engine. It is now called the MEMORY 
storage engine. None of the new types are available by default - 
you can check for sure with the SHOW ENGINES statement. Here is 
what is on my default version of MySQL Max: