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In the early days of the web MySQL was extremely faster than anything else because it was an ISAM file with no support for transactions. That was OK for many people that self-hosted the db on the not very powerful CPUs of the time.

I remember people stating that transactions are useless, and maybe they are for some workloads, see the success of MongoDB years later.

The transactional engine InnoDB was added in version 3.23 [1] in 2001 [2] .

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_MySQL_database_e...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL