How do you choose storage engines for Oracle?

Question

Ok the question is obviously wrong as it stands, but I'm wondering how can I choose storage implementations on Oracle as I would for MySQL, say I want one table to MyIsam like and another for Archiving only and one Black Hole style for test purposes. How would I go around to doing this within a single Schema, or something similar that would meet these needs?

Answer 1

Oracle does not have a storage engine concept like Mysql does. It stores all tables in its own format in datafiles. What you can do is use different tablespaces and store them on different disks whose performance characteristics may be different.

The concepts guide may help you understand how Oracle works.

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14220/toc.htm

Answer 2

You may use ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL:

CREATE TABLE ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL

and select an access driver to use with it.

As for now, Oracle has ORACLE_LOADER to access CSV and like text tables (read-only), and ORACLE_DATAPUMP to read and write binary data (in custom format).