Relations in Document-oriented database?

Question

I\'m interested in document-oriented databases, and I\'d like to play with MongoDB. So I started a fairly simple project (an issue tracker), but am having hard times thinking in

Answer 1

The beauty of mongodb and other "NoSQL" product is that there isn't any schema to design. I use MongoDB and I love it, not having to write SQL queries and awful JOIN queries! So to answer your two questions.

1 - If you create multiple documents, you'll need make two calls to the DB. Not saying it's a bad thing but if you can throw everything into one document, why not? I recall when I used to use MySQL, I would create a "blog" table and a "comments" table. Now, I append the comments to the record in the same collection (aka table) and keep building on it.

2 - Yes ...