Documentation Home
MySQL 9.1 Reference Manual
Related Documentation Download this Manual
PDF (US Ltr) - 40.4Mb
PDF (A4) - 40.5Mb
Man Pages (TGZ) - 259.5Kb
Man Pages (Zip) - 366.7Kb
Info (Gzip) - 4.1Mb
Info (Zip) - 4.1Mb


MySQL 9.1 Reference Manual  / Optimization  /  Optimizing for MyISAM Tables

10.6 Optimizing for MyISAM Tables

TheMyISAM storage engine performs best with read-mostly data or with low-concurrency operations, because table locks limit the ability to perform simultaneous updates. In MySQL,InnoDB is the default storage engine rather thanMyISAM.