No flames from me; I stay out of that religious war. However, the general consensus is to
move to InnoDB. So, here are the gotchas. Most are non-issues; a few might bite you, but
can probably be dealt with:
http://mysql.rjweb.org/doc.php/myisam2innodb
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Manuel Arostegui [mailto:manuel@stripped]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 12:51 PM
> To: Mark Haney
> Cc: mysql mailing list
> Subject: Re: InnoDB vs. other storage engines
>
> 2012/9/19 Mark Haney <markh@stripped>
>
> > I hope this doesn't end in some kind of flame war. I'm looking to
> > optimize my tables (and performance in general) of the DB my web app
> > is using. I'm tweaking things a little at a time, but I'm curious as
> > to what the rest of the MySQL list thinks about changing my storage
> > engine from InnoDB to something else so I can optimize the tables on
> a regular basis.
> >
> > Is it worth the effort? Any caveats?
>
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> I would depend on what your workload would be. Mostly writes, mostly
> reads, how many writes/reads do you expect etc.
> The best approach, from my point of view, would be, firstly, tune your
> MySQL server (if you've not done it yet) before getting into
> engine/tables optimizations which can be more complicated.
>
> Manuel.
