Designing an Efficient Import of 1 Billion Records into MySQL: Architecture, Batch Loading, Sharding, and Concurrency Control
This article analyzes how to import one billion 1 KB log records stored in HDFS or S3 into MySQL by evaluating single‑table limits, choosing storage engines, designing sharding, batch insertion, file‑reading strategies, task coordination, and distributed locking to achieve high‑throughput and ordered writes.
