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Peeyush Kushwaha
Peeyush Kushwaha

Reputation: 3623

A persistent temporary table?

Right now, I'm using temporary tables in my select queries to speed up the execution. They are created every time I execute the query.

In my current situation, the tables are updated with new data only once per day, so I was thinking that instead of using MySQL's CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE statement, I'll create a persistent table, which in a sense would be temporary since it'd be deleted and recreated after a day. And I could fill it up with the temporary data just after I've finished updating the main tables.

Or, will InnoDB's data buffer will be smart enough to cache the data for temporary tables itself?

Or is there another way for caching the temporary tables?

I'm also sending along appropriate cache headers with the data loaded using AJAX to reduce server load, and AJAX queries make up about 70% of the read requests sent to mysql.

Is what I'm thinking just a plain waste of disk space and tables are never meant to be used in this fashion, or is it a really bright idea for my situation?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3211

Answers (2)

DomE
DomE

Reputation: 31

I came across a similar issue recently where the CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE came at a significant cost due to continual reuse. I also used the solution that Barranka describes (create once and truncate when finished or before reuse).

To increase performance even more I used InnoDB tables that were created on a RAM disk (ramfs). This gives all the benefits of the InnoDB storage engine with very little IO cost. This is a better solution than using the MEMORY storage engine which, according to Oracle support, is only available for legacy applications and has not been improved or extended for some time.

Upvotes: 3

markdwhite
markdwhite

Reputation: 2449

Maybe looking at MEMORY storage engine might help? I use these for some accept data from an intensive query once a day, where the MEMORY table is then used intensively for a short period of time.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/memory-storage-engine.html

Upvotes: 1

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