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Storing time series data using partitioning
Posted by: Florian Rampp
Date: August 14, 2014 05:45AM

Hi,

We are currently setting up a MySQL database (version 5.6.17) on an Amazon db.m1.large RDS instance for storing time series data. Each time series property of an object is stored in a separate InnoDB table (e.g. inside temperature of building 42 is stored in table building__inside_temperature). There are about 50 time series tables and each has three columns:

- timestamp in milliseconds as bigint
- ID of object (as char(22))
- numerical value (as double)

The primary key is (timestamp, ID). We use range partitioning on the timestamp column with one partition per day for 2.5 years and key sub-partitioning on the ID with 8 sub-partitions. This results in about 800 partitions with 8 sub-partitions each per table. We use innodb_file_per_table=OFF since there would be too many open files otherwise. The other MySQL parameters are left untouched.

When connecting with 100 threads (and connections) in parallel and opening a time series table, the MySQL instance runs out of memory, probably due to this bug: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=70641&edit=3
We used the following mysqlslap command for that: mysqlslap --create=create_timeseries.sql --delimiter=";" --query=insert_datapoint.sql --number-of-queries=1 --concurrency=100

Content of the files is here: http://pastebin.com/x4YMMF3h

What do you think about the tables? Any suggestions about the partitioning?

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