The BLC plugin code does not specify the storage engine. It is likely that it is using the default for the relevant version of MySQL/MariaDB. This is normally MyISAM for older versions and InnoDB for newer versions.
InnoDB respects the transaction handling code in the link checker. This caused me problems – see https://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-checking-not-progressing-broken-transaction-handling/
Thanks for the quick fix. The previous version failed for me (PHP 5.3.3)
Many thanks. I’ve loaded the development code from your link and the Plain Excerpt for ‘more’ works fine.