[support] MyISAM vs InnoDB

[Daniel Carrera]

Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote:
>> Well, not yet anyway. http://drupal.org/node/301362
...
> 
> My point is:
> - if you're not using "advanced" features and you're not constrained
>   by concurrent writes MyISAM is good enough. I'd say MyISAM may be
>   even better suited to Drupal than InnoDB. None of the two engines
>   is famous for data integrity after all.

I thought the whole point of InnoDB *was* data integrity.


> - if you're using advanced features, you're constrained by
>   concurrent writes, you can't afford data loss and you didn't
>   invest too much in MySQL there are better engines to look at.

Out of curiosity, what would you suggest? No, I'm not looking to leave 
MySQL but I always enjoy learning a little more about databases.

Daniel.