How do you track page hits or click statistics?

[Todd Lipcon]

Why not use the ARCHIVE storage engine in MySQL to get fast inserts into 
the database, and then cron them from there? ARCHIVE supports very fast 
insert performance, and it shouldn't be a big database load since it's all 
sequential IO. You could even put this table on a separate MySQL server 
with 250G 7200RPM RAID 1 or something - no need for anything fancy.

-Todd

On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, dangalist at centrum.cz wrote:

> I am trying to figure out problem, how to effective track click statistics like user profile views
> without hitting database or writing statistics to flatfile and processing by cron. It would be best
> to save them directly into memcache so they can be globally available, then run in periods
> database updates. The problem is that there could be thousands of different profiles to count stats for
> so using increment function is not an option.
> Best would be if memcache would support "append" so I could save all hit IDs under one memcache
> key and then process the list to count frequency of IDs and issue db update.
> So my question is, how do I handle such cases to have statistics written into shared place to process later DB update?
>
> Goodwill
>