MyISAM is the performance-tuned storage engine for MySQL. It is considered faster than InnoDB, but due to being transaction-unsafe, it is not used for OLTP applications (unless they're transaction-free). It is more commonly used in OLAP, which are batch-based and rarely need transactions. --
PhiloVivero - 12 Oct 2004
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