When should you choose to use InnoDB in MySQL?

Question

I am rather confused by the hurt-mongering here.

I know how to do them, see below, but no idea why? What are they for?

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Answer 1

InnoDB:

The InnoDB storage engine in MySQL. InnoDB is a high-reliability and high-performance storage engine for MySQL. Key advantages of InnoDB include:

• Its design follows the ACID model, with transactions featuring commit, rollback, and crash-recovery capabilities to protect user data.
• Row-level locking (without escalation to coarser granularity locks) and Oracle-style consistent reads increase multi-user concurrency and performance.
• InnoDB tables arrange your data on disk to optimize common queries based on primary keys. Each InnoDB table has a primary key index called the clustered index that organizes the data to minimize I/O for primary key lookups
• To maintain data integrity, InnoDB also supports FOREIGN KEY referential-integrity constraints.
• You can freely mix InnoDB tables with tables from other MySQL storage engines, even within the same statement. For example, you can use a join operation to combine data from InnoDB and MEMORY tables in a single query.

InnoDB Limitations:

• No full text indexing (Below-5.6 mysql version)

• Cannot be compressed for fast, read-only

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