JBoss Portal and MySQL scalability: What The…???

I found several queries running on a MySQL 5.0 database like this one:

This query is related to JBoss Portal and does a full scan on table JBP_OBJECT_NODE.

It has bad performances (>0.8 sec) with just a few records:

mysql> select count(*) from JBP_OBJECT_NODE;
+———-+
| count(*) |
+———-+
|    33461 |
+———-+

If I rewrite the query using an inner join (à la Oracle, please forgive me) instead of a subquery I get an index scan:

With 30k records the execution time falls down from 0.8 secs to 0.01 secs…
That’s NOT all! I found this open bug:

https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBPORTAL-2040

With many users registered in, the JBoss Portal Admin console tooks over a minute to show a single page…

I don’t like portals…