Mysql trigger/events vs Cronjob

Question

I have an auction website which let my users place an unlimited amount of autobiddings.

To monitor these autobiddings something has to check the database every seco

Answer 1

I would probably model the solution to your auto-bidding problem a bit differently:

How about an event-based approach? You store the auto-bid requests of your users and if someone actually bids on an object you process the previously queued auto-bids.

This has the following benefits:

• load on the database is distributed organically
• you only do lookups that are actually needed at the time.
• it is real-time and not tick-based
• it is easier to reason about the business/application logic because it is local instead of global