Question

Suppose I have 1 million data in my database. what will be the most optimized criteria to get faster results??

Criteria 1:

Single database – Many tables

Criteria 2:

Multiple database – Multiple tables

Criteria 3:

Single database – Single table

and what are the other factors which I need to take care off??

Thanks

Mathew

Answer 1

One millions rows isn’t all that much and then, as always, it depends.

• What kind of queries are you going to run?
• Ratio of select and inserts.
• How big are the rows?

If you still think you need more than a vanilla MySQL table then you could take a look at MySQL Cluster.