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May
30
2018
Upgrading Spatial Indexes to MySQL 8.0
Posted by MySQL Server Dev Team on Wed 30 May 2018 16:34 UTC
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MySQL has had spatial indexes for many years, but they have all been Cartesian (X and Y coordinates) indexes. MySQL 8.0 adds support for geographic (latitude-longitude) indexes. In an earlier blog post, I described how the feature works. In this post, we’ll go into the details of how to upgrade from 5.7 to 8.0 if you have spatial indexes.…

Nov
09
2008
Scalability As A Functional Or Non Functional Requirement
Posted by Frank Mash on Sun 09 Nov 2008 05:34 UTC
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I am currently tasked with writing Software Requirements Specification (SRS) document for a project. Effective sharding (based on specific criterion) and Scalability are key requirements of the project.

Scalability is traditionally classified as a non-functional requirement. My question to the community is that if scalability is crucial to a project, would it still be classified as a non-functional requirement? Are their cases when scalability requirements would be best classified as functional requirements?