Answer: One of the major components of the MySQL server is the storage engine for doing different types of database operations. Each database table created is based on the specific storage engine.
MySQL supports two types of storage engines i.e transactional and non-transactional. InnoDB is the default storage engine of MySQL which is transactional. MyISAM storage engine is a non-transactional storage engine.
The differences between InnoDB and MyISAM storage engines are discussed below:
- MyISAM supports the FULLTEXT index but InnoDB doesn’t support the FULLTEXT index.
- MyISAM is faster and InnoDB is slower.
- InnoDB supports ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability) property but MyISAM doesn’t.
- InnoDB supports row-level locking and MyISAM supports table-level locking.
- InnoDB is suitable for large database and MyISAM is suitable for a small database.
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