Best Practices for Schema Design
Discover essential MongoDB data modeling tips, including designing for queries, embedding related data, maintaining document size, ensuring consistency, and using indexes for better performance.
A thoughtful model helps your application run faster, stay flexible, and scale easily. Instead of just thinking, “How should I store this data?” ask, “How will I use this data in my app?” This mindset leads to practical, performant, and maintainable data models. The following are some tips to follow.
Tips for schema design
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Design for queries
“Don't just model our data around how it looks—model it based on how it will be used.” Think in terms of real-world use cases. Design your documents based on how your app fetches and updates data.
Querying is often the most frequent and performance-critical part of an application. If your schema mirrors your access patterns, MongoDB can return results faster and with fewer operations. Let’s say our app frequently needs to show user profiles along with their last five orders. Rather than ...