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@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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