Is it possible to have an indexed view in MySQL?

I don’t think MySQL supports materialized views which is what you would need, but it wouldn’t help you in this situation anyway. Whether the index is on the view or on the underlying table, it would need to be written and updated at some point during an update of the underlying table, so it would still cause the write speed issues.

Your best bet would probably be to create summary tables that get updated periodically.

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