If you find yourself reading this post, there are very good chances that you find yourself in the shoes of a MySQL database administrator, a database-savvy developer, or even a sysadmin. If you’re reading this post, also chances are that you know a couple of things about storage engines, indexes, partitioning, normalization, search engines helping you secure your data, and whatnot.

In this blog, we will dive deeper into the correlation between big data and foreign keys on MySQL.