February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
510 pages
16h 10m
English
MyISAM was the default storage engine for MySQL prior to 5.5 1. MyISAM storage engine tables do not support ACID-compliant as opposed to InnoDB. MyISAM tables support table-level locking only, so MyISAM tables are not transaction-safe; however, they are optimized for compression and speed. It is generally used when you need to have primarily read operations with minimal transaction data. The maximum size of a MyISAM table can grow up to 256 TB, which helps in use cases such as data analytics. MyISAM supports full-text indexing, which can help in complex search operations. Using full-text indexes, we can index data stored in BLOB and TEXT data types.
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