> MyISAM engine
MyISAM didn't support ACID transactions, thus can't be apples to apples comparison, its just very different niches.
There are plenty of distributed databases on the market today which could be used if you don't need ACID transactions.
Oops - I wasn't fully awake yet! It was using InnoDB.
MyISAM is mostly a huge "NOPE!" from me -_-
And do you know what was the transaction+replication story there? Were all changes transactionally and synchronously replicated?