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Re: [Snort-users] Backend DB's

Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Backend DB's
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:23:20 -0400
Myisam is faster for reads and write, if properly tuned (see billions of
articles).
Innodb is slower (but is safer)

Due to the way both are built, multiple writers can corrupt myisam.

(We saw issues with this in the mysql based Bayesian DB supported by
SpamAssassin, corruption issues)

Some claim that innodb gets corrupted faster and is harder to recover from.
Again, google.

Mostly, myisam is faster than Innodb.
One tool you might look at is the mysqltuner.pl
http://mysqltuner.com/

YMMV

Ps, we tried innodb on snort/base.. It was slower.
We tried postgresql.. The articles on optimization are not as complete.
Might take you a year to get it to run as fast.
Pps.  Delete old alerts and run mysqlcheck --optimize snort weekly.

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Michael Scheidell, CTO
|SECNAP Network Security
Winner 2008 Network Products Guide Hot Companies
FreeBSD SpamAssassin Ports maintainer

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