Data Modeling in Document Stores - Embedding and Referencing

Example #1 of alt-relational data modeling

This is a draft section on alt-relational modeling examples. Here, we’ll cover how to extend relational modeling to nested data, using a document database as the example. Document databases like MongoDB are widely used in applications, and JSON is also extremely popular for almost any data use case. So, knowing the patterns of embedding and referencing are very useful.