activerecord_idnamecache
Use Mysql AUTO_INCREMENT to support key value cache, which should be combined by an integer and string. It means to reduce the database storage size, and improve query performance.
All cache will store in process memory, and will never be expired, until the process dies, so the less kvs you use, the better performance you will get. BTW, 100,000 general strings use 10MB memory.
Some relatived articles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_database
Usage
setup
create_table :kv_browser_names, :options => 'ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8' do |t|
t.string :name
t.timestamps
end
class KvBrowserName < ActiveRecord::Base
include IdNameCache
end
or
create_table :common_tag, :options => 'ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8' do |t|
t.integer :tagid
t.string :tagname
end
class CommonTag < ActiveRecord::Base
self.table_name = :common_tag
self.primary_key = :tagid
include IdNameCache; set_key_value :tagid, :tagname
# include IdNameCache; set_key_value_without_create :tagid, :tagname # if you dont want create it automately
end
use cases
ruby-1.9.3-rc1 :001 > QuizTag[1]
QuizTag Load (0.3ms) SELECT `common_tag`.* FROM `common_tag` WHERE `common_tag`.`tagid` = 1 LIMIT 1
=> "Android"
ruby-1.9.3-rc1 :002 > QuizTag[1]
=> "Android"
ruby-1.9.3-rc1 :003 > QuizTag['Android']
QuizTag Load (0.5ms) SELECT `common_tag`.* FROM `common_tag` WHERE `common_tag`.`tagname` = 'Android' LIMIT 1
=> 1
ruby-1.9.3-rc1 :004 > QuizTag['Android']
=> 1
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