best engine for high-performance counts table

Question

I have a counts table which contains columns similar to (around 14 count columns):

user_id
friends_count
photo_count
video_count
blogs_count

This table gets updated whenever the user adds a photo or a friend.

I am going with InnoDB Engine since it is better to have row locking, but in the meantime also there are good number of reads on this table. For every user when they see profile of other user or even the users side menu contains all these counts.

Which engine is best suited for most writes and most reads like this?

Answer 1

I looked at the different articles and especially these three links

http://www.oracle.com/partners/en/knowledge-zone/mysql-5-5-innodb-myisam-522945.pdf

Should I use MyISAM or InnoDB Tables for my MySQL Database?

http://www.quora.com/Which-MySQL-Storage-engines-are-used-by-Facebook

and came to conclusion it is better to go ahead with InnoDB .

Any comments on this also appreciated

Thanks and Regards

Kiran

Answer 2

General purpose MySql/MariaDB Engines

1. XtraDB is the best choice in the majority of cases. It is a performance-enhanced fork of InnoDB and is MariaDB's default engine until MariaDB 10.1.

2. InnoDB is a good general transaction storage engine. It is the default MySQL storage engine, and default MariaDB 10.2 storage engine, but in earlier releases XtraDB is a performance enhanced fork of InnoDB, and is usually preferred.

3. Aria, MariaDB's more modern improvement on MyISAM, has a small footprint and allows for easy copying between systems.

4. MyISAM has a small footprint and allows for easy copying between systems. MyISAM is MySQL's oldest storage engine. There is usually little reason to use it except for legacy purposes. Aria is MariaDB's more modern improvement.

Source of info: MariaDB Engines