我尝试在MyISAM和InnoDB表中插入随机数据。结果相当令人震惊。MyISAM插入100万行的时间比InnoDB插入1万行的时间少几秒钟!

还可以看看MySQL本身的一些替代品:

玛丽亚数据库

http://mariadb.org/

MariaDB是一个数据库服务器，为MySQL提供了直接替换功能。MariaDB是由MySQL的一些原始作者在更广泛的免费和开源软件开发人员社区的帮助下构建的。除了MySQL的核心功能之外，MariaDB还提供了一组丰富的功能增强，包括备用存储引擎、服务器优化和补丁。

Percona服务器

https://launchpad.net/percona-server

一个增强型的MySQL替代品，具有更好的性能、改进的诊断和新特性。

InnoDB offers:

ACID transactions
row-level locking
foreign key constraints
automatic crash recovery
table compression (read/write)
spatial data types (no spatial indexes)

在InnoDB中，一行中除TEXT和BLOB外的所有数据最多占用8000字节。InnoDB没有全文索引。在InnoDB中，COUNT(*)s(当WHERE, GROUP BY或JOIN不使用时)执行速度比MyISAM慢，因为行数没有存储在内部。InnoDB将数据和索引存储在一个文件中。InnoDB使用缓冲池来缓存数据和索引。

MyISAM提供：

fast COUNT(*)s (when WHERE, GROUP BY, or JOIN is not used)
full text indexing
smaller disk footprint
very high table compression (read only)
spatial data types and indexes (R-tree)

MyISAM has table-level locking, but no row-level locking. No transactions. No automatic crash recovery, but it does offer repair table functionality. No foreign key constraints. MyISAM tables are generally more compact in size on disk when compared to InnoDB tables. MyISAM tables could be further highly reduced in size by compressing with myisampack if needed, but become read-only. MyISAM stores indexes in one file and data in another. MyISAM uses key buffers for caching indexes and leaves the data caching management to the operating system.

总的来说，我推荐InnoDB用于大多数用途，MyISAM仅用于特殊用途。InnoDB现在是MySQL新版本的默认引擎。

每个应用程序在使用数据库时都有自己的性能配置文件，并且可能会随着时间的推移而改变。

你能做的最好的事情就是测试你的选择。在MyISAM和InnoDB之间切换是很简单的，所以加载一些测试数据并在你的站点上启动jmeter，看看会发生什么。

人们经常谈论性能、读写、外键等等，但在我看来，存储引擎还有一个必须具备的特性:原子更新。

试试这个:

Issue an UPDATE against your MyISAM table that takes 5 seconds. While the UPDATE is in progress, say 2.5 seconds in, hit Ctrl-C to interrupt it. Observe the effects on the table. How many rows were updated? How many were not updated? Is the table even readable, or was it corrupted when you hit Ctrl-C? Try the same experiment with UPDATE against an InnoDB table, interrupting the query in progress. Observe the InnoDB table. Zero rows were updated. InnoDB has assured you have atomic updates, and if the full update could not be committed, it rolls back the whole change. Also, the table is not corrupt. This works even if you use killall -9 mysqld to simulate a crash.

性能当然是可取的，但不丢失数据更重要。

myisam对于这种类型的工作负载(高并发写入)是一个NOGO，我对innodb没有那么多的经验(测试了3次，发现每次性能都很糟糕，但自从上次测试以来已经有一段时间了) 如果你没有被强迫运行mysql，可以考虑尝试postgres，因为它处理并发写要更好