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Asked: 2026-05-28T05:54:31+00:00

I am on a college project for a social networking web application. I am

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I am on a college project for a social networking web application. I am over with the schema design part.I am using PHP+MySQL. Right now I am testing the application and the tables are MyISAMs. But I got to know that myISAM doesn’t provide row level locking but at table level. So I am confused whether I need to switch to InnoDB. I am expecting a 8:3 select v/s update and 30 updates per second is my threshold limit. I am relying on shared hosting server. So please help me with it. Love to hear from a Database EXPERT…

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  1. Editorial Team

    I would recommend InnoDB engine, because it has better performance in OLTP.

    MyISAM is too fast when used in non-concurrent (or low concurrent) queries.

    Also you can take advantage of foreign key integrity.

    Hope this helps.

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