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Schemaless SQL database for strong and lasting back end

#database #sql #mongodb #javascript

Benefits of the solution

  • Schemaless structures maintain in the code
  • Your documents stored as relational tables transparently
  • Performance and efficiency of relational database
  • Easier to maintain in the long term
  • Consume much fewer resources (cheaper in the cloud)

Examples

Single document - code side

 var doc = { email: "dwain.jonhson@gmail.com", firstname: "Dwain", lastname: "Jonhson", username: "dwainjonhson" }; doc.save(); collection("users").find({username: "dwainjonhson"}); /* { trid : 2, // auto id generation email: "dwain.jonhson@gmail.com", firstname: "Dwain", lastname: "Jonhson", username: "dwainjonhson" } */
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Single document - Database side

> select * from users; TRID EMAIL FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME USERNAME ------ --------------------------- -------------- ------------- -------------- 2 dwain.jonhson@gmail.com Dwain Jonhson dwainjonhson
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Nested documents - code side

 var doc = { email: "dwain.jonhson@gmail.com", firstname: "Dwain", lastname: "Jonhson", username: "dwainjonhson", phones: [{ alias: "home", number: "+1-202-555-0143" },{ alias: "mobile", number: "+1-202-555-0156" }] }; doc.save(); collection("users").find({username: "dwainjonhson"}); /* { trid : 2, // auto id generation email: "dwain.jonhson@gmail.com", firstname: "Dwain", lastname: "Jonhson", username: "dwainjonhson" phones: [{ trid : 1, // auto id generation alias: "home", number: "+1-202-555-0143" },{ trid : 2, // auto id generation alias: "mobile", number: "+1-202-555-0156" }] } */
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Nested documents - database side

> select * from users; TRID EMAIL FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME USERNAME ------ --------------------------- -------------- ------------- -------------- 2 dwain.jonhson@gmail.com Dwain Jonhson dwainjonhson -- Nested phone documents automatically organized in table with the proper relationship. > select * from users_phones; TRID USERD_TRID ALIAS NUMBER ------ ----------- ----------------- ------------------------ 1 2 home +1-202-555-0143 2 2 mobile +1-202-555-0156
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Conclusion

Push your document in the database without any worries about restructuring them later. Made all the modifications that you didn't predict because wasn't part of the initial requirements. And do this afterward with the comfort of SQL. Finally, reduce the cloud cost due to the resource consumption involved with traditional NoSQL databases.

This concept allows you to code fast with your data objects as documents (like Mongodb) while benefiting transparently from the relational databases (like PostgreSQL) .

Any questions? Please comment below :)

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