Practical JSON in MySQL 5.7

This month's presenter is Ike Walker, Database Architect at Flite.

Native JSON support is new for MySQL in version 5.7, but how much should we be using it? Is this merely an optimization for the JSON data that many of us have been storing for years in previous versions of MySQL, or is it time to consider expanded use cases for JSON in MySQL?

In this session, I will discuss some of the practical uses of JSON in MySQL, focusing on version 5.7 but also discussing options for previous versions. I will discuss several specific use cases.

Some topics I will address:

• The evolution of JSON parsing in MySQL: from stored routines to UDFs to native functions
• Real-life use cases: Custom fields, flexible rollups, nested objects, etc.
• The power of JSON + virtual columns
• Storing JSON as text versus using new JSON data types
• Read/write balance considerations
• Disk storage implications
• Indexing JSON documents in MySQL

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