2GB和约15M条记录是一个非常小的数据库-我在奔腾III上运行过更大的数据库(!)，一切仍然运行得非常快。如果你的慢，那是数据库/应用程序设计的问题，而不是mysql的问题。

物理数据库大小无关紧要。记录的数量并不重要。

In my experience the biggest problem that you are going to run in to is not size, but the number of queries you can handle at a time. Most likely you are going to have to move to a master/slave configuration so that the read queries can run against the slaves and the write queries run against the master. However if you are not ready for this yet, you can always tweak your indexes for the queries you are running to speed up the response times. Also there is a lot of tweaking you can do to the network stack and kernel in Linux that will help.

我的内存达到了10GB，只有中等数量的连接，它处理请求还不错。

我将首先关注您的索引，然后让服务器管理员查看您的操作系统，如果所有这些都没有帮助，那么可能是时候实现主/从配置了。

总的来说，这是一个非常微妙的问题，无论如何都不是微不足道的。我建议你阅读mysqlperformanceblog.com和高性能MySQL。我真的认为这个问题没有普遍的答案。

我正在做一个项目，它有一个MySQL数据库，几乎有1TB的数据。最重要的可伸缩性因素是RAM。如果您的表的索引适合内存，并且您的查询得到了高度优化，那么您可以使用普通机器处理合理数量的请求。

记录的数量确实很重要，这取决于表的外观。有很多varchar字段和只有几个int或long类型是有区别的。

数据库的物理大小也很重要:例如，考虑备份。根据你的引擎，你的物理db文件会增长，但不会缩小，例如innodb。因此，删除大量的行，并不有助于缩小您的物理文件。

这个问题有很多，在很多情况下，细节决定成败。

不，这并不重要。MySQL的速度大约是每秒700万行。所以你可以把它放大一点

还要注意复杂连接。除了交易量之外，交易复杂性也是一个很大的因素。

重构繁重的查询有时会大大提高性能。

The database size does matter. If you have more than one table with more than a million records, then performance starts indeed to degrade. The number of records does of course affect the performance: MySQL can be slow with large tables. If you hit one million records you will get performance problems if the indices are not set right (for example no indices for fields in "WHERE statements" or "ON conditions" in joins). If you hit 10 million records, you will start to get performance problems even if you have all your indices right. Hardware upgrades - adding more memory and more processor power, especially memory - often help to reduce the most severe problems by increasing the performance again, at least to a certain degree. For example 37 signals went from 32 GB RAM to 128GB of RAM for the Basecamp database server.