Fastest Way to Find Distance Between Two Lat/Long Points

Question

I currently have just under a million locations in a mysql database all with longitude and latitude information.

I am trying to find the distance between one point a

Answer 1

Using mysql

SET @orig_lon = 1.027125;
SET @dest_lon = 1.027125;

SET @orig_lat = 2.398441;
SET @dest_lat = 2.398441;

SET @kmormiles = 6371;-- for distance in miles set to : 3956

SELECT @kmormiles * ACOS(LEAST(COS(RADIANS(@orig_lat)) * 
 COS(RADIANS(@dest_lat)) * COS(RADIANS(@orig_lon - @dest_lon)) + 
 SIN(RADIANS(@orig_lat)) * SIN(RADIANS(@dest_lat)),1.0)) as distance;

See: https://andrew.hedges.name/experiments/haversine/

See: https://stackoverflow.com/a/24372831/5155484

See: http://www.plumislandmedia.net/mysql/haversine-mysql-nearest-loc/

NOTE: LEAST is used to avoid null values as a comment suggested on https://stackoverflow.com/a/24372831/5155484