MyISAM比InnoDB快是误传

It’s an excellent idea to run a realistic load simulation on a test server
and then literally pull the power plug. The firsthand experience of
recovering from a crash is priceless. It saves nasty surprises later.

Don’t just believe the common “MyISAM is faster than InnoDB” folk wisdom. It is
not categorically true. We can name dozens of situations where InnoDB leaves
MyISAM in the dust, especially for applications where clustered indexes are useful or
where the data fits in memory

《High Performance MySQL》 page 51