inheritance in document database?

Question

I am wondering because I searched the pdf \"[noSql] the definitive guide\" and \"beginning [noSql]\" for the word \"inheritance\" but I didn\'t find anything? am I missing s

Answer 1

Well it's a pretty old question, but since I ended up here I'd like to add a 2017 update.
If your using mongoose to connect to MongoDb you may want to check out discriminators:

Discriminators are a schema inheritance mechanism. They enable you to have multiple models with overlapping schemas on top of the same underlying MongoDB collection.

Documentation was a little bit vague for me at first, this article could be a better place to grasp the idea.