InnoDB takes over an hour to import 600MB file, MyISAM in a few minutes

Question

I\'m currently working on creating an environment to test performance of an app; I\'m testing with MySQL and InnoDB to find out which can serve us best. Within this environm

Answer 1

I found the hard drive to be the bottleneck - old-fashioned disks are hopeless, SSD is okay-ish but still far from perfect. Importing to tmpfs and copying out the data is way faster, details: https://dba.stackexchange.com/a/89367/56667