darkhero@darkhero-laptop:~$ mysql -u root
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 36
Server version: 5.1.51-rel11.5 (Percona Server (GPL), 11.5 , Revision 132)

Copyright (c) 2000, 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software,
and you are welcome to modify and redistribute it under the GPL v2 license

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

mysql> show engines;
+------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------+------+------------+
| Engine     | Support | Comment                                                                    | Transactions | XA   | Savepoints |
+------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------+------+------------+
| InnoDB     | YES     | Percona-XtraDB, Supports transactions, row-level locking, and foreign keys | YES          | YES  | YES        |
| MRG_MYISAM | YES     | Collection of identical MyISAM tables                                      | NO           | NO   | NO         |
| BLACKHOLE  | YES     | /dev/null storage engine (anything you write to it disappears)             | NO           | NO   | NO         |
| CSV        | YES     | CSV storage engine                                                         | NO           | NO   | NO         |
| MEMORY     | YES     | Hash based, stored in memory, useful for temporary tables                  | NO           | NO   | NO         |
| FEDERATED  | NO      | Federated MySQL storage engine                                             | NULL         | NULL | NULL       |
| ARCHIVE    | YES     | Archive storage engine                                                     | NO           | NO   | NO         |
| MyISAM     | DEFAULT | Default engine as of MySQL 3.23 with great performance                     | NO           | NO   | NO         |
+------------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------+------+------------+
8 rows in set (0.00 sec)