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> System table containing descriptions of table engines supported by the server and the features they support.

# system.table_engines

<h2 id="description">
  Description
</h2>

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](/reference/data-types/index)) — The name of table engine.
* `supports_settings` ([UInt8](/reference/data-types/index)) — Flag that indicates if table engine supports SETTINGS clause.
* `supports_skipping_indices` ([UInt8](/reference/data-types/index)) — Flag that indicates if table engine supports skipping indices.
* `supports_projections` ([UInt8](/reference/data-types/index)) — Flag that indicated if table engine supports projections.
* `supports_sort_order` ([UInt8](/reference/data-types/index)) — Flag that indicates if table engine supports clauses PARTITION\_BY, PRIMARY\_KEY, ORDER\_BY and SAMPLE\_BY.
* `supports_ttl` ([UInt8](/reference/data-types/index)) — Flag that indicates if table engine supports TTL.
* `supports_replication` ([UInt8](/reference/data-types/index)) — Flag that indicates if table engine supports data replication.
* `supports_deduplication` ([UInt8](/reference/data-types/index)) — Flag that indicates if table engine supports data deduplication.
* `supports_parallel_insert` ([UInt8](/reference/data-types/index)) — Flag that indicates if table engine supports parallel insert (see max\_insert\_threads setting).
* `description` ([String](/reference/data-types/index)) — A description of what the table engine does. For engines that have a dedicated documentation page, this contains the full Markdown body of that page; for the remaining engines it is a concise summary.
* `syntax` ([String](/reference/data-types/index)) — How the table engine is used when creating a table. For most engines this is the ENGINE clause of a CREATE TABLE query, but some engines (such as the various kinds of views or the Loop engine) are used through other forms, such as CREATE VIEW or a SELECT from a table function.
* `examples` ([String](/reference/data-types/index)) — Usage examples.
* `introduced_in` ([String](/reference/data-types/index)) — The ClickHouse version in which the table engine was first introduced, in the form major.minor.
* `related` ([Array(String)](/reference/data-types/index)) — The names of related table engines.

<h2 id="example">
  Example
</h2>

```sql title="Query" theme={null}
SELECT
    name,
    supports_settings,
    supports_skipping_indices,
    supports_sort_order,
    supports_ttl,
    supports_replication,
    supports_deduplication,
    supports_parallel_insert
FROM system.table_engines
WHERE name IN ('Kafka', 'MergeTree', 'ReplicatedCollapsingMergeTree')
```

```text title="Response" theme={null}
┌─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 │
└───────────────────────────────┴───────────────────┴───────────────────────────┴─────────────────────┴──────────────┴──────────────────────┴────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────┘
```

<h2 id="see-also">
  See also
</h2>

* MergeTree family [query clauses](/reference/engines/table-engines/mergetree-family/mergetree#mergetree-query-clauses)
* Kafka [settings](/reference/engines/table-engines/integrations/kafka#creating-a-table)
* Join [settings](/reference/engines/table-engines/special/join#join-limitations-and-settings)