I'm having some troubles understanding what indices to use on a Nested-Set model. The query is:
SELECT `node`.`id`,(COUNT(parent.id) - 1) AS `depth`,`name` FROM `categories` AS `parent`
INNER JOIN `categories` AS `node` ON (`node`.`lft` BETWEEN parent.lft AND parent.rgt)
INNER JOIN `filebank_categories` ON (`node`.`id` = `filebank_categories`.`category_id` AND `filebank_categories`.`filebank_id` = 136)
INNER JOIN `categories_names` ON (`categories_names`.`category_id` = `node`.`id` AND `categories_names`.`language_id` = 1)
WHERE `node`.`system_id` = parent.system_id
GROUP BY node.id
ORDER BY `node`.`lft` ASC
This query takes ~350ms with ~5000 rows in categories
. EXPLAIN gives this:
1 SIMPLE filebank_categories ref fk_filebank_categories_categories1,filebank_id filebank_id 5 const 474 Using where; Using temporary; Using filesort 1 SIMPLE node eq_ref PRIMARY,lft,category,cat,lft,rgt,system,id,lft,system PRIMARY 4 filebank_categories.category_id 1 1 SIMPLE parent ref lft,category,system system 5 node.system_id 50 Using where 1 SIMPLE categories_names eq_ref PRIMARY,fk_categories_names_categories1 PRIMARY 8 node.id,const 1 Using where
Table structure:
CREATE TABLE `categories` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`system_id` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
`lft` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
`rgt` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
KEY `lft,category` (`lft`,`id`),
KEY `cat,lft,rgt` (`id`,`lft`,`rgt`),
KEY `system` (`system_id`),
CONSTRAINT `categories_ibfk_1` FOREIGN KEY (`system_id`) REFERENCES `systems` (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=11519 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
Any ideas how to improve this? Is it even possible? I'm not very experienced in database-optimization so I can't really figure out what indices to use here (and why).
Thanks.