Techniques And Architecture

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  • Full Text Search
    Summary of how full-text search works (inverted index, stop words, stemming, relevance ranking) and its support in MySQL.
  • Hierarchical Data
    Compares three relational models for storing tree data (adjacency list, closure table, nested set) and their query and update trade-offs.
  • Sharding Partitioning
    Explains database sharding across servers versus table partitioning within one database, including goals, drawbacks, and partition types.