Kurinchi Blogger Scribbles ... » BSD http://kurinchilamp.kurinchilion.com On Open Source Technologies Mon, 02 Jan 2012 06:14:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 MySQL – MyISAM, BSD, InnoDB Considerations http://kurinchilamp.kurinchilion.com/2009/05/mysql-myisam-bsd-innodb-considerations.html http://kurinchilamp.kurinchilion.com/2009/05/mysql-myisam-bsd-innodb-considerations.html#comments Fri, 15 May 2009 07:43:11 +0000 kurinchilamp http://kurinchilamp.kurinchilion.com/?p=330 MySQL Table Types that are well known
- MyISAM
- InnoDB
- BSD

When making a choice amongst the different types of tables in MySQL, we need to consider the following points

- Size of database based on the activity
- Nature of database access / activity (whether it involves heavy reads / writes)
- Database backup (schema, data)
- Session handling
- If it involves a sync to another database
- What needs to be done if the application is to be scaled

MyISAM
- Table level locking
- Has full text indexing
- Comparatively faster than InnoDB

InnoDB
- Record level locking
- Handles transactions
- Reliability in handling the database function comes with a price – performance

BDB
- Page level locking

To read about table locking issues, refer MySQL link http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/table-locking.html

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