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MySQL 8 for Big Data

You're reading from   MySQL 8 for Big Data Effective data processing with MySQL 8, Hadoop, NoSQL APIs, and other Big Data tools

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788397186
Length 296 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Chintan Mehta Chintan Mehta
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Preface 1. Introduction to Big Data and MySQL 8 FREE CHAPTER 2. Data Query Techniques in MySQL 8 3. Indexing your data for High-Performing Queries 4. Using Memcached with MySQL 8 5. Partitioning High Volume Data 6. Replication for building highly available solutions 7. MySQL 8 Best Practices 8. NoSQL API for Integrating with Big Data Solutions 9. Case study: Part I - Apache Sqoop for exchanging data between MySQL and Hadoop 10. Case study: Part II - Real time event processing using MySQL applier

Horizontal partitioning in MySQL 8


As mentioned, horizontal partitioning will create more than one partition of the data. Each partition will have the same number of columns. Different partitioning techniques are used to divide the page into multiple partitions. Consider the following figure for horizontal partitioning:

The following is the list of partitioning types supported in MySQL 8:

  • Range partitioning
  • List partitioning
  • Hash partitioning
  • Columns partitioning
  • Key partitioning
  • Sub partitioning

Let's understand each partitioning type in detail.

Range partitioning

When partitioning is done based on expressions that contain contiguous non-repetitive values of ranges, it is known as range partitioning. The expression for range partitioning contains the key VALUE LESS THAN operator.

There are multiple data types, based on which we can partition the table:

CREATE TABLE access_log ( 
log_id INT NOT NULL, 
type VARCHAR(100), 
access_url VARCHAR(100), 
access_date TIMESTAMP NOT NULL, 
response_time INT NOT...
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