MySQL: Many tables or many databases?

Question

For a project we having a bunch of data that always have the same structure and is not linked together. There are two approaches to save the data:

• Creating a n

Answer 1

In the situation you describe, experience has led me to believe that you'll find the separate databases to be faster when you have a large number of pools.

There's a really important general principle to observe here, though: Don't think about how fast it'll be, profile it.