MyISAM vs. INNODB for a single blob table

2004-03-18 Thread Alan Williamson
A quick question for the hardcore MySQL experts out there. I have a simple table; --- ID varchar (PK) DATA longblob --- This table is a simple persistence cache for one of our servers. It regularly INSERTs and SELECTs into this table data of approximately 2KB -

Re: MyISAM vs. INNODB for a single blob table

2004-03-18 Thread Chris Nolan
Alan Williamson wrote: A quick question for the hardcore MySQL experts out there. I have a simple table; --- ID varchar (PK) DATA longblob --- This table is a simple persistence cache for one of our servers. It regularly INSERTs and SELECTs into this table data

Re: MyISAM vs. INNODB for a single blob table

2004-03-18 Thread Alan Williamson
Thanks for that Chris, interesting thoughts. For clarification, there is *NO* UPDATEs running on this table. Not a single one! :) Many more SELECTs than INSERTs Chris Nolan wrote: Alan Williamson wrote: A quick question for the hardcore MySQL experts out there. I have a simple table;

Re: MyISAM vs. INNODB for a single blob table

2004-03-18 Thread Martijn Tonies
Hi Alan, Thanks for that Chris, interesting thoughts. For clarification, there is *NO* UPDATEs running on this table. Not a single one! :) Many more SELECTs than INSERTs If you value your data, and these INSERTs are part of a multi-insert batch of related data, go with the table-type that