… MYISAM. My my.cnf variables were as follows on a 4GB RAM system, Red Hat Enterprise with dual SCSI RAID: [mysqld] long_query_time=5 skip… tables and we needed referential integrity and such, MySQL was a pathetic “option”. Yes 5.x has included triggers, stored procedures, and… this check in the application. Just my experience. I know some big websites are using MySQL, but we had neither the budget…