The only thing I ever used MyISAM tables for was for storing blobs and full-text search on documents. If your data is mostly read only then it's a decent optio

The only thing I ever used MyISAM tables for was for storing blobs and full-text search on documents. If your data is mostly read only then it's a decent option out of the box. But if you do even mildly frequent updates then you'll quickly run into problems with the table level locking instead of the row level locking offered by InnoDB