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by VintageCool 915 days ago
There is no excuse to be using MyISAM instead of InnoDB in 2023. It was a scarcely forgivable mistake in 2013.

The read performance advantages of MyISAM are solved better by using SSDs instead of HDDs.

MyISAM will cost you dearly when performing actions like "trying to create a new replica of an existing database".