Should I use MyISAM?

When should I use MyISAM?

MyISAM can also be used for various types of purpose.1MyISAM is easily used for creating and designing. Hence, it can be used by beginners.2In MyISAM, there is no complication involving foreign key relationship between tables.3This is faster as compared to InnoDB.4We can use it when we need minimal performance.

Which one is better MyISAM or InnoDB?

Over recent years, InnoDB has shown to perform better and be more reliable. A big reason to use InnoDB over MyISAM, is the lack of full table-level locking. This allows your queries to process faster.

Why MyISAM give the best performance?

MyISAM is designed with the idea that your database is queried far more than its updated and as a result it performs very fast read operations. If your read to write(insert|update) ratio is less than 15% its better to use MyISAM.

Which engine is best for MySQL?

MySQL supports the following storage engines that developers can use for their specific purposes:InnoDB is the most widely used and ACID-based storage engine set as default in MySQL versions 8.0 or higher. ... MyISAM can handle non-transactional tables and support table-level locking and full-text search indexes.