I read the following article yesterday (http://blogs.sitepoint.com/2010/11/19/mysql-mistakes-php-developers/) and it wrote the following:
MySQL has a num
Sorry for bumping an old question, but this also helped me a lot to choose which engine, especially since MyISAM is faster for reads and my database tables had more read the write:
http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/mysql-engines-myisam-vs-innodb