[Eric Cope]

Also,
I wrote a quick article to get Sphinx running with MySQL.
http://blog.voltampmedia.com/2012/04/07/centos-5-8-mysql-php-and-sphinx-install-and-configure/

Eric


On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Eric Cope <eric.cope at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you need fulltext and InnoDB, checkout XtraDB from Percona. I think
> MariaDB has an alternative as well.
>
> Eric
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Matt Graham <mhgraham at crow202.org> wrote:
>
>> On 2014-04-08 09:44, keith smith wrote:
>>
>>> I have a MySql database that is about 10 years old. The tables are
>>> using the MyISAM data engine.  As I look around it seems the
>>> InnoDB data engine is such a better deal.  I am thinking that a
>>> switch to InnoDB might be the way to go
>>>
>>
>> If you're using fulltext search in any of your columns, you'll probably
>> have to find another way of doing that, like sphinx.  You can't really do
>> fulltext search with InnoDB.  If you're not doing fulltext search, then the
>> row-level locking that InnoDB provides makes inserts and updates a lot
>> faster.
>>
>>  Is there anything I should be aware of or any potential problems in
>>> using InnoDB with MySql versions prior to 5.5.5?
>>>
>>
>> I've used a bunch of InnoDB tables on a bunch of mysql DBs going back to
>> 5.0.51, and never had any problems with InnoDB in and of itself.  (Disks
>> dying, clusters split-braining, running out of disk space, people doing
>> DROP DATABASE on production data, and so forth caused far more pain than
>> anything InnoDB.)  The main thing I'd worry about is that it can take hours
>> to convert huge tables from MyISAM to InnoDB if your machine's got any sort
>> of CPU or I/O bottleneck, and while that conversion's going on, the table's
>> unusable.  If you can schedule enough downtime, you'll probably be just
>> fine.
>>
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