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。

我不是数据库专家，也不是凭经验说的。然而:

MyISAM表使用表级锁定。根据您的流量估计，您每秒有接近200个写入操作。有了MyISAM，在任何时候只有其中一项可以进行。您必须确保您的硬件能够跟上这些事务，以避免超时，即单个查询的时间不能超过5毫秒。

这就意味着你需要一个支持行级锁的存储引擎，比如InnoDB。

另一方面，编写几个简单的脚本来模拟每个存储引擎的负载，然后比较结果应该是相当简单的。

对于这样的读写比率，我猜InnoDB会表现得更好。 既然您可以接受脏读，那么您可以(如果您负担得起)复制到一个从服务器，并让您的所有读都到从服务器。另外，考虑批量插入，而不是一次插入一条记录。

我发现即使Myisam有锁争用，它在大多数情况下仍然比InnoDb快，因为它使用了快速的锁获取方案。我尝试了几次Innodb，总是因为这样或那样的原因回到MyIsam。此外，InnoDB在巨大的写负载下会非常消耗CPU。

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。

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。