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Slow ranking values in MySQL

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I have a table of around 30 million retail products, with various INT columns that describe sales counters and pricing at different retailers. I'm supposed to display well over 70 different rankings on every individual product's page. Example: #23 best seller in China, #732 best seller in USA, #13 cheapest price in Norway, etc. I've thought of various solutions to this problem: 1. Create ranking fields - I guessed it wouldn't work since just a single drop in price would mean updating millions of rows to reduce their ranking field by 1 for example. 2. Use COUNT - COUNT the amount of products cheaper than X : display ranking. I'm still considering this, however a single query takes 200 ms on average, so running 70 of them looks like it would take ages. Really looking forward to advice from experienced database admins on this topic, as my knowledge feels very basic. Additional information: Hardware is dual Xeon CPUs, 15k RPM hard drives, 32 GB DDR3, LEMP stack, running latest Percona, all tables are XtraDB engine. **Edit**: Posting CREATE statement as requested CREATE TABLE products ( id varchar(64) COLLATE utf8_bin NOT NULL, retailer_id int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, sales_usa int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, sales_eu int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, sales_asia int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, sales_africa int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, sales_france int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, sales_germany int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, sales_russia int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, sales_china int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, sales_india int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, sales_uk int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, sales_spain int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, sales_norway int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, sales_sweden int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, sales_japan int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (id) ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_bin; Sample ranking statement: SELECT id FROM products WHERE sales_japan > 12345 After which I perform a mysql_num_rows() on the result to get that product's ranking in Japan for example.
Asked by Tom (121 rep)
Feb 6, 2015, 10:38 PM
Last activity: Jan 26, 2025, 01:07 AM