Creating Fulltext Search Optimized

Question

Currently I have the following fulltext index setup:

fulltext on:

Number - Name - Suffix - Direction - City - State - ZIPCode

Select id, MATCH(Number, Name, Suffix, Direction, City, State, ZIPCode) 
AGAINST ("Test") as Relevance from test where 1, 
and  MATCH(Number, Name, Suffix, Direction, City, State, ZIPCode)     
AGAINST ("+Test" IN Boolean Mode) HAVING Relevance > 0.2

for an address. It currently is in a MyISAM db type for MySQL, however I'm really not liking how when expensive queries hit, they lock up the entire table, and over a million rows, I'm trying to optimize the best I can.

Would switching to Innodb help with this? Does Innodb support the type of query I have for MyISAM?

Any other suggestions on how to better optimize this query and keep with the full-text search?

Thank you!

Answer 1

InnoDB does not support full-text searching.

Another option would be to use Sphinx, which is easy to setup and blazingly fast.