Title: Why force MyISAM?
Last modified: May 11, 2017

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# Why force MyISAM?

 *  Resolved [Taylor S](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wtswp/)
 * (@wtswp)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-force-myisam/)
 * Is there a particular reason that you are forcing the MyISAM engine on tables?
   This breaks compatibility with Percona XtraDB Cluster. Why not use the default
   engine that WP is using? Are you doing something that is incompatible with InnoDB?

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 *  Plugin Author [gioni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gioni/)
 * (@gioni)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-force-myisam/#post-9121501)
 * Hi, Taylor!
 * Everything is compatible with InnoDB, so feel free to convert the engine of the
   tables.
 * Here are detailed explanations:
 * [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cerber-tables-forcing-use-of-myisam-engine/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cerber-tables-forcing-use-of-myisam-engine/)
   
   [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-does-not-honor-database-settings/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-does-not-honor-database-settings/)

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-force-myisam/#post-9121501)
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