Schema Design and Data Modeling
This chapter will focus on schema design for schemaless databases such as MongoDB. Although this may sound counterintuitive, there are considerations that we should take into account when we develop for MongoDB. We will learn about the schema considerations and the data types supported by MongoDB. We will also learn about preparing data for text searches in MongoDB by connecting using Ruby, Python, and PHP.
By the end of this chapter, you will have learned how to connect to MongoDB using the Ruby, Python, and PHP languages and using the low-level driver commands or an object-relational mapping framework. You will have learned how to model your data for different entity relationship mappings and what the trade-offs of different design decisions are.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Relational schema design
- Data modeling
- Modeling data for atomic operations
- Modeling relationships
- Connecting to MongoDB ...
