Is the internal locking of MySQL sufficient for a small to medium sized website? My tables are MyISAM. There might be a few hundred people concurrently hitting a specific table with SELECT’S and INSERT’s. None of the INSERT/UPDATE queries would overlap. That is, no two users will be updating the same comment ID. INSERT’s/UPDATE’s would be one-off operations—there would be no reading of data and performing additional operations within the same query.
Specifically, I am setting up a comment/chat system for my website. At worst, there might be a couple of hundred people performing a SELECT statement on the comment/chat tables in order to read new posts. With respect to INSERT’s, there might be 100(?) different people trying to INSERT a new comment at any time.
I found this article in another question on SO, and it states that LOCK TABLES is “never required for self-contained insert, update, or delete operations.” Is this good practice for the amount of DB traffic that I might have? TIA for any advice.
The only form of locking MyISAM tables is table locks. The idea is that they designed it to be way-fast enough that no one else should need access while it works. Right – YMM definitely V. But for most small-to-medium-size websites, it’s fine. For intance, that’s what WordPress uses.