In this blog post, we’ll discuss JSON document fast lookup with MySQL 5.7.
Recently I attended Morgan Tocker’s talk on MySQL 5.7 and JSON at FOSDEM, and I found it awesome.
I learned some great information from the talk. Let me share one of them here: a very useful trick if you plan to store JSON documents in your MySQL database and want to retrieve the documents from some attribute’s values. So let’s look at how to do JSON document fast lookup with MySQL 5.7!
In this short example, I show you how we can speed up this type of search using JSON functions and virtual columns.
This our test table:
Table: test_features Create Table: CREATE TABLE …[Read more]