MYISAM: MYISAM supports Table-level Locking MyISAM designed for need of speed MyISAM does not support foreign keys hence we call MySQL with MYISAM is DBMS MyISAM stores its tables

innodb vs myisam : comparision of mysql database engines

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MYISAM: MYISAM supports Table-level Locking MyISAM designed for need of speed MyISAM does not support foreign keys hence we call MySQL with MYISAM is DBMS MyISAM stores its tables, data and indexes in diskspace using separate three different files. (tablename.FRM, tablename.MYD, tablename.MYI) MYISAM not supports transaction. You cannot commit and rollback with MYISAM. Once you … Read more