In my webinar How To Rock with MyRocks I briefly mentioned the column families feature in MyRocks, that allows a fine tuning for indexes and primary keys.
Let’s review it in more detail.
To recap, MyRocks is based on the RocksDB library, which stores all data in [key => value] pairs, so when it translates to MySQL, all Primary Keys (data) and secondary keys (indexes) are stored in [ key => value ] pairs, which by default are assigned to “default” Column Family.
Each column family has individual set of
- SST files, and their parameters
- Memtable and its parameters
- Bloom filters, and their parameters
- Compression settings
There is a N:1 relation between tables and indexes to column family, so schematically it looks like this:
How do you assign …
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