MongoDB for Developers with Python Transcripts
Chapter: Modeling and document design
Lecture: More document patterns
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Let's close out this chapter with a few more sources
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you can get some patterns here;
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so recently I had Rick Copeland who is in the MongoDB masters program
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along with myself, and I had him on the podcast on episode 109
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to talk about applied MongoDB design patterns.
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So this concept of embedding and modeling
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and data duplication and all these things,
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certainly we talked about on the podcast, and he talks about in his book,
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but he has a lot of really interesting use cases
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and actually some performance trade-offs,
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using some of the atomic update operators, one versus the other or not at all,
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just to see how that might work out.
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So he's got a bunch of use cases and you might flip through his book
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once you really get into things and say does one of the patterns he talks about
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really closely match what I'm doing— you might get a huge jumpstart
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on modeling your data with actual performance numbers behind it.
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So check out the podcast, it's free
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and check out his book if you find it to be helpful.
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And final thought on modeling with these document databases is
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there is no perfect answer, it's always this tension of
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I could model it this way and this part of my app gets better,
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I could model it another way, and that part is not quite as good,
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but another part becomes more flexible or becomes better,
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so it's really about balancing the trade-offs, not right versus wrong.
