<p>Yes, I have built exchanges with PHP and MySQL. I would also recommend Redis for caching.</p>

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Cheers! appreciate it, will look into Redis.
tommo
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does it support row locking like innodb?
tommo
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<p>I am looking at coding a Bitcoin trading exchange,  Would PHP be sufficient for an order matching engine?  The server would be load balanced with running MySQL.</p>

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Bitcoin exchange language coding
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# Bitcoin exchange language coding

(Asked by: username_0 on 2013-12-04)

I am looking at coding a Bitcoin trading exchange, Would PHP be sufficient for an order matching engine? The server would be load balanced with running MySQL.

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2013-12-04. Score: 3 | Accepted answer

Yes, I have built exchanges with PHP and MySQL. I would also recommend Redis for caching.

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: Cheers! appreciate it, will look into Redis.  
> **username_0**: does it support row locking like innodb?  

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