InnoDB vs MyISAM Discussion

Xsecrets wrote: well right there is where you're blowing it all out of proportion. Lets just say for grins you have a very slow server and a db transaction takes 6 seconds. We both know it should really be under 500 milliseconds, but we'll make the numbers easy. If you are doing 10 orders in 6 seconds then you are doing 100 orders every minute that's 144,000 orders a day if it's linear of course it won't be, but even so given that a db transaction is actually generally less than half a second the linear number is well into the millions. I don't really think anyone would classify that as a small business.