Mam te małe stoliki,item icategory:

CREATE TABLE `item` (
  `id` mediumint(8) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `name` varchar(150) NOT NULL,
  `category_id` mediumint(8) unsigned NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
  KEY `name` (`name`),
  KEY `category_id` (`category_id`)
) CHARSET=utf8

CREATE TABLE `category` (
  `id` mediumint(8) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `name` varchar(150) NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
  KEY `name` (`name`)
) CHARSET=utf8

Dodałem 100 kategorii i 1000 pozycji.

Jeśli to uruchomię:

EXPLAIN SELECT item.id,category.name AS category_name FROM item JOIN category ON item.category_id=category.id;

Wtedy, jeśli silnik stołów to InnoDB, otrzymuję:

+----+-------------+----------+-------+---------------+-------------+---------+--------------------+------+-------------+
| id | select_type | table    | type  | possible_keys | key         | key_len | ref                | rows | Extra       |
+----+-------------+----------+-------+---------------+-------------+---------+--------------------+------+-------------+
|  1 | SIMPLE      | category | index | PRIMARY       | name        | 452     | NULL               |  103 | Using index |
|  1 | SIMPLE      | item     | ref   | category_id   | category_id | 3       | dbname.category.id |    5 | Using index |
+----+-------------+----------+-------+---------------+-------------+---------+--------------------+------+-------------+

Ale jeśli przestawię się na MyISAM (za pomocąalter table engine=myisam) Dostaję:

+----+-------------+----------+--------+---------------+---------+---------+-------------------------+------+-------+
| id | select_type | table    | type   | possible_keys | key     | key_len | ref                     | rows | Extra |
+----+-------------+----------+--------+---------------+---------+---------+-------------------------+------+-------+
|  1 | SIMPLE      | item     | ALL    | category_id   | NULL    | NULL    | NULL                    | 1003 |       |
|  1 | SIMPLE      | category | eq_ref | PRIMARY       | PRIMARY | 3       | dbname.item.category_id |    1 |       |
+----+-------------+----------+--------+---------------+---------+---------+-------------------------+------+-------+

Moje pytanie brzmi: dlaczego ta różnica w sposobie obsługi indeksów?