Ranking with millions of entries

Question

I\'m working on a server for an online game which should be able to handle millions of players. Now the game needs leaderboards and wants to be able to show a players curren

Answer 1

You can redundantly store the rank of each player in the player table so that you don't have to do any join operations. Every time, when the leaderboards are recalculated, the player tables should be updated, too.