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As a personal exercise, I’m building a photo site and implementing keyword search. Currently, I’m in the early stages of the design process and am at a fork.
Which is better
keyword field in the photo table and executing FULLTEXT searchesn imagesThis may be a case of premature optimization, but I would like some guidance.
I cannot think of a single way in which your database design would be improved by using the
FULLTEXTapproach. The separate keyword table speeds searching, allows declarative relational integrity to be applied to the keyword list, makes gathering statistics much easier, and will be more portable across engines.