Is there any faster way to perform group by row counts using two table in mysql?

Question

I am trying to find the total number of outlets(nation_id wise) that exist in the orders table in a given date range.

select  o2.nation_id,count(o2.id) as outlet_count
    from  outlets o2
    where  o2.id in (
        SELECT  distinct o.outlet_id
            from  orders o
            where  order_date >= '2022-05-01 00:00:00'
              and  order_date <= '2022-06-30 23:59:59'
                    )
    group by  o2.nation_id ``` 

Now, this query gives the exact result but it takes around 3 seconds. Is there any way to perform this query faster? Probably less than 1 second. NB: Outlets table contains around 25k data and orders table contains around 1.2M rows.

Answer 1

Avoiding IN will boost the performance and creating indices for nation_id & id columns in outlets table and outlet_id column of orders table will definitely improve the speed.

select  o2.nation_id,  count(Ord.outlet_id) as outlet_count
from  outlets o2
LEFT JOIN 
    (
    SELECT  distinct o.outlet_id
        from  orders o
        where  order_date >= '2022-05-01 00:00:00'
          and  order_date <= '2022-06-30 23:59:59'
    ) Ord ON o2.id = Ord.outlet_id
group by  o2.nation_id

Answer 2

Give this a try. It's something tricky that I just invented and tested (on different tables):

SELECT  ou.nation_id, COUNT(*) AS outlet_count
    FROM ( SELECT o.outlet_id, MIN(order_date)
               FROM orders AS o
               WHERE o.order_date >= '2022-05-01'
                 AND o.order_date  < '2022-05-01' + INTERVAL 1 MONTH
               GROUP BY o.outlet_id
         ) AS olist
    JOIN outlets AS ou  ON ou.id = olist.outlet_id
    GROUP BY ou.nation_id

The GROUP BY together with the MIN (or MAX , etc) is a trick to get the Optimizer to hop through the index, touching only one row per outlet_id . Leaving out the MIN or changing to DISTINCT failed to involve the optimization. (Caveat: Different versions of MySQL/MariaDB may work differently here.)

orders:  INDEX(outlet_id, order_date)  -- required for the trick

If there are any issues, please provide SHOW CREATE TABLE and EXPLAIN SELECT...