Google Cloud SQL: Alternative to LOAD DATA INFILE

Question

I am working in Google App Engine and we have a Python script that dumps data in Google Cloud SQL. One of the data sets we have to dump is huge. We dump around 150K rows of

Answer 1

As stated in this comment of another question, LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE is supported by App Engine.

The MySQL Manual explains on how to use this statement.

Answer 2

Things you can do to get better bulk import performance:

• Create a .sql file and do an import
• Make sure that the insert statements do more than one row at a time. A good rule of thumb is one megabyte per INSERT.
• Switch to async replication
• Do the import from an App Engine app. The app will be colocated with your Cloud SQL instance, greatly reducing the network latency.