Mysql – How to speed up thesql query using cache

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I'm using the following query to create a leaderboard of top 10 people in this week.

SELECT 
users.id, 
concat(users.first_name, ' ', users.last_name) as name, 
users.picture_url, 
MAX(rounds.speed) as speed, 
AVG(rounds.accuracy) as accuracy, 
SUM(rounds.score) as score, 
users.level 
FROM users INNER JOIN rounds ON users.email=rounds.email 
WHERE DATE(rounds.dateTime) BETWEEN CURDATE()-INTERVAL 1 WEEK AND CURDATE() 
GROUP BY users.id  
ORDER BY score DESC, speed DESC 
LIMIT 10

Currently, it takes around 6 seconds to run this query. The table 'rounds' contain around 3000 rows. Soon it will be much bigger. So once the user opens the leaderboard it takes more than 6 seconds to load!

Is there any way of caching or improving the query so that it loads faster?

Database: MySQL Backend: PHP5 Framework: Codeigniter

Best Answer

(1) Consider designing the schema so that you join on users.id, not users.email. That will lead to a better way to formulate the query -- by computing the aggregates before joining to users.

(2) Don't hide indexed columns inside functions; the index cannot be used. Instead of

WHERE DATE(rounds.dateTime) BETWEEN CURDATE()-INTERVAL 1 WEEK
                                AND CURDATE()

use

WHERE dateTime >= CURDATE() - INTERVAL 1 WEEK
  AND dateTime  < CURDATE()

(3) Composite indexes:

INDEX(email, dateTime)   -- after doing (2)
INDEX(dateTime)  -- after doing both (1) and (2)

Related Solutions

MySQL optimization question — how to speed up a simple query

Here is your original query

SELECT t.price
FROM commoddb.tbcommodprices t
WHERE t.ticker='LAV05 Comdty'
AND t.whichprice='last'
t.date = '2005-09-01';

Since there is but one table in this query, all you need is a good index.

ALTER TABLE commoddb.tbcommodprices ADD INDEX (ticker,whichprice,date);

This index should now be a permanent part of the table until you decide to remove it, which I don't think you want to do. To see the table and the indexes, just do this:

SHOW CREATE TABLE commoddb.tbcommodprices\G

Mysql – How to speed up thesql query

Here is your original query

SELECT
    `school`.`ARCO_name`,
    `student-`.`ClassSize_7`,
    `student-`.`ClassSize_8`,
    `degree_o`.`degree_code`,
    `accredit`.`full_faculty_3`,
    `accredit`.`total_faculty_3`,
    `accredit`.`pc_terminal`,
    `accredit`.`stud_fac_ratio`
FROM school
    INNER JOIN `student-` ON `school`.`scid`   = `student-`.`scid`
    INNER JOIN `degree_o` ON `student-`.`scid` = `degree_o`.`scid`
    INNER JOIN `accredit` ON `degree_o`.`scid` = `accredit`.`scid`
    ORDER BY `school`.`ARCO_name` ASC LIMIT 0, 25
;

Two Suggestions

Perform LIMIT 0, 25 on school table before the INNER JOINs
INNER JOIN school.scid to the other three(3) tables

Here is my propsed query

SELECT
    `school`.`ARCO_name`,
    `student-`.`ClassSize_7`,
    `student-`.`ClassSize_8`,
    `degree_o`.`degree_code`,
    `accredit`.`full_faculty_3`,
    `accredit`.`total_faculty_3`,
    `accredit`.`pc_terminal`,
    `accredit`.`stud_fac_ratio`
FROM
    (SELECT scid,ARCO_name FROM school ORDER BY ARCO_name LIMIT 0,25) school
    INNER JOIN `student-` ON `school`.`scid` = `student-`.`scid`
    INNER JOIN `degree_o` ON `school`.`scid` = `degree_o`.`scid`
    INNER JOIN `accredit` ON `school`.`scid` = `accredit`.`scid`
;

Give it a Try !!!

UPDATE 2012-06-25 12:13 EDT

To speed up the subquery, make sure you have this index:

ALTER TABLE school ADD INDEX ARCO_name_scid_ndx (ARCO_name,scid);

UPDATE 2012-06-25 12:18 EDT

AS pointed out by @yercube in his comments to my answer, you may want to attach the student-id from to degree_o and degree_id over to accedit. Perhaps something like this:

SELECT
    `school`.`ARCO_name`,
    `student-`.`ClassSize_7`,
    `student-`.`ClassSize_8`,
    `degree_o`.`degree_code`,
    `accredit`.`full_faculty_3`,
    `accredit`.`total_faculty_3`,
    `accredit`.`pc_terminal`,
    `accredit`.`stud_fac_ratio`
FROM
    (SELECT scid,ARCO_name FROM school ORDER BY ARCO_name LIMIT 0,25) school
    INNER JOIN `student-` ON `school`.`scid` = `student-`.`scid`
    INNER JOIN `degree_o` ON `student-`.`studend_id` = `degree_o`.`studend_id`
    INNER JOIN `accredit` ON `degree_o`.`degree_id` = `accredit`.`degree_id`
;