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I wanted to know how important it is to use InnoDB table and transactions for an auction website.
I know that when there is payment involved the transactions are important, but in this case, there are only bids placed.
The bids that are placed however are placed very quickly, maybe a few every second.
I was wondering if i couldn’t just use the normal MyIsam tables for this problem.
There will be a huge amount of reads and writes every second.
MyISAM will be quicker, definitely, because it’s losing the ACID-compliance that is inherent in InnoDB. I’d do performance benchmarking to make the decision, but I’m more inclined towards InnoDB for this type of system.