Re: Performance impact -- multiple databases Vs multiple tables...

2004-12-01 Thread Brent Baisley
I'm not sure if you have a problem with one large InnoDB table or one large file. With InnoDB you can specify multiple files, limit the size of each file and even specify the location of each file. So you could limit your InnoDB files to say 1GB each (or lower/higher) and specify which disk

Performance impact -- multiple databases Vs multiple tables...

2004-11-30 Thread Alok Gore
Hi All, I tried digging for this information in the archives but could not find anything. I am in to developing an app. that uses very high amount of data (Close to 80 GB per machine). It has 3-4 logical tables. But I have to partition them in to multiple tables because the mysql table size

Re: Performance impact -- multiple databases Vs multiple tables...

2004-11-30 Thread Brent Baisley
If you are hitting file size limits, you probably want to look into using the InnoDB table type. That will allow you to work around file size limits and have a database of just about any size you need. You won't end up having a 30GB file, but multiple smaller files which will be transparent to

Re: Performance impact -- multiple databases Vs multiple tables...

2004-11-30 Thread Gleb Paharenko
Hello. Think about merge storage. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/MERGE_storage_engine.html Alok Gore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I tried digging for this information in the archives but could not find anything. I am in to developing an app. that uses very high amount

Re: Performance impact -- multiple databases Vs multiple tables...

2004-11-30 Thread alok gore
Thanks a lot for the quick response :) We are not using MyISAM tables. All our tables are InnoDB tables. The rational behind this decision is that the database is expected to get hundreds of insert queries per second, so we want the row level locking of InnoDB to speed this up. (I should