How to make faster queries on my mysql table? - mysql

Question

I have the following table
As you can see It has 1868155 rows. I am attempting to make a realtime graph, but It is impossible since almost any query lasts 1 or 2 seconds.
For example, this query
SELECT sensor.nombre, temperatura.temperatura
FROM sensor, temperatura
WHERE sensor.id = temperatura.idsensor
ORDER BY temperatura.fecha DESC, idsensor ASC
LIMIT 4
Is supposed to show this
Ive tried everything, using indexes(perhaps not correctly), using only the fields i need instead of *, etc. but the results are the same!
These are the indexes of the table.
Explain of the query
EDITED
This is the explain of the query after implementing
ALTER TABLE temperatura
ADD INDEX `sensor_temp` (`idsensor`,`fecha`,`temperatura`)
And using inner join syntax for the query
SELECT s.nombre, t.temperatura
FROM sensor s
INNER JOIN temperatura t
ON s.id = t.idsensor
ORDER BY t.fecha DESC, t.idsensor ASC
LIMIT 4
This is my whole sensor table

Answer 1

Try the following:
ALTER TABLE temperatura
ADD INDEX `sensor_temp` (`idsensor`,`fecha`,`temperatura`)
I also recommend using modern join syntax:
SELECT s.nombre, t.temperatura
FROM sensor s
INNER JOIN temperatura t
ON s.id = t.idsensor
ORDER BY t.fecha DESC, t.idsensor ASC
LIMIT 4
Report the EXPLAIN again after making the above changes, if performance is still not good enough.
Attempt #2
After looking closely at what it appears you are trying to do, I believe this next query may be more effective:
SELECT
s.nombre, t.temperatura
FROM temperatura t
LEFT OUTER JOIN temperatura later_t
ON later_t.idsensor = t.idsensor
AND later_t.fecha > t.fecha
INNER JOIN sensor s
ON s.id = t.idsensor
WHERE later_t.idsensor IS NULL
ORDER BY t.idsensor ASC
You can also try:
SELECT
s.nombre, t.temperatura
FROM temperatura t
INNER JOIN (
SELECT
t.idsensor,
MAX(t.fecha) AS fecha
FROM temperatura t
GROUP BY t.idsensor
) max_fecha
ON max_fecha.idsensor = t.idsensor
AND max_fecha.fecha > t.fecha
INNER JOIN sensor s
ON s.id = t.idsensor
ORDER BY t.idsensor ASC
In my experience, if you are trying to find the most recent record, one of the two queries above will work. Which works best depends on various factors, so try them both.
Let me know how those perform, and if they still get you the data you want. Also, any query you run, run at least 3 times, and report all 3 times. That will help get an accurate measure of how fast a given query is, since various external factors can affect the speed of a query.

Answer 2

It is not possible to optimize a mixture of ASC and DESC, as in
ORDER BY t.fecha DESC, t.idsensor ASC
You tried a covering index:
INDEX `sensor_temp` (`idsensor`,`fecha`,`temperatura`)
However, this covering index may be better:
INDEX `sensor_temp` (`fecha`,`idsensor`,`temperatura`)
Then, if you are willing to get the sensors in a different order, use
ORDER BY t.fecha DESC, t.idsensor DESC
This will give you up to 4 sensors for the last fecha:
sensor: PRIMARY KEY(id)
tempuratura: INDEX(fecha, idsensor, tempuratura)
SELECT
( SELECT nombre FROM sensor WHERE id = t.idsensor ) AS nombre,
t.temperatura
FROM
( SELECT MAX(fecha) AS max_fecha FROM tempuratura ) AS z
JOIN temperatura AS t ON t.fecha = z.max_fecha
ORDER BY t.idsensor ASC
LIMIT 4;