Re: Performace of a database with a lot of tables

2007-02-09 Thread Dan Buettner
Olexandr, I fear that model may not scale well. Certainly having data spread across so many different tables reduces the effectiveness of memory caching. I recommend you alter the design to have 30 tables total, each with a column for user id, rather than 30 tables per user. This may improve pe

Performace of a database with a lot of tables

2007-02-09 Thread Olexandr Melnyk
Hello, I am working on hosting solution for a popular open source script, where users can sign up and get an own forum. We use InnoDB, and each user has an own set of tables (around 30); there are currently around 500 users registered. Despite the large count of tables, database is small, around