mysql 分数换算优良等级,在MySQL中计算百分等级

I have a very big table of measurement data in MySQL and I need to compute the percentile rank for each and every one of these values. Oracle appears to have a function called percent_rank but I can't find anything similar for MySQL. Sure I could just brute-force it in Python which I use anyways to populate the table but I suspect that would be quite inefficient because one sample might have 200.000 observations.

解决方案

This is a relatively ugly answer, and I feel guilty saying it. That said, it might help you with your issue.

One way to determine the percentage would be to count all of the rows, and count the number of rows that are greater than the number you provided. You can calculate either greater or less than and take the inverse as necessary.

Create an index on your number.

total = select count();

less_equal = select count() where value > indexed_number;

The percentage would be something like: less_equal / total or (total - less_equal)/total

Make sure that both of them are using the index that you created. If they are not, tweak them until they are. The explain query should have "using index" in the right hand column. In the case of the select count(*) it should be using index for InnoDB and something like const for MyISAM. MyISAM will know this value at any time without having to calculate it.

If you needed to have the percentage stored in the database, you can use the setup from above for performance and then calculate the value for each row by using the second query as an inner select. The first query's value can be set as a constant.

Does this help?

Jacob