Or preferably, Sphinx support. From the announcement I can't see that you can't do it, but not that you can. InnoDB and MyISAM are not good at full text search

Or preferably, Sphinx support. From the announcement I can't see that you can't do it, but not that you can. InnoDB and MyISAM are not good at full text search even on local disk, no reason to make that worse. Somewhat kinda germane post from Percona: http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2009/09/10/what-to-do-with-mysql-full-text-search-while-migrating-to-innodb/ http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2009/09/10/what-to-do-wi...