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Nov

2010

Why do I recommend switching over from MyISAM to Innodb!

Posted by Ovais Tariq on Tue 16 Nov 2010 11:47 UTC
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innodb, Backups, foreign keys, transactions, locking, recovery, acid, clustered indexes, concurrency, row-level locking, crash recovery, throughput, Hot Backup, database resources, mysql resources, acid-compliant, adaptive hash indexing, background flushes, buffer pool, change buffer, data consistency, innodb resources, innodb vs myisam, read ahead, MySQL, Performance

Although MyISAM has been the default storage engine for MySQL but its soon going to change with the release of MySQL server 5.5. Not only that, more and more people are shifting over to the Innodb storage engine and the reasons for that is the tremendous benefits, not only in terms of performance, concurrency, ACID-transactions, foreign key constraints, but also because of the way it helps out the DBA with hot-backups support, automatic crash recovery and avoiding data inconsistencies which can prove to be a pain with MyISAM. In this article I try to hammer out the reasons why you should move on to using Innodb instead of MyISAM.

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