Chapter 5. Partitioning High Volume Data
In the previous chapter, you learned the basics of Memcached and its wonderful features. We also went into detail about working in different scenarios and how we can use Memcached APIs to improve the performance of our MySQL query. Let's now learn different partitioning methods and how partitioning can help in case of large data tables in this chapter.
We will cover below topics in this chapter about partitioning in MySQL 8:
- Partitioning in MySQL 8
- Horizontal partitioning in MySQL 8
- Vertical partitioning
- Pruning partitions in MySQL
- Querying on partitioned data
When we talk about big data, it is automatically considered that we need to deal with large data tables where different information is stored. For any organization, it is very important to store data in such a way that the database provides scalability, performance, availability, and security. For instance, in a highly accessed e-commerce store, there are thousands, or more, of orders placed frequently...