Do you think that a library of higher-order functions, for the JavaScript view layer, could be provided help codify the emerging "best practices"? I mean, we should be able to help newbies emit their keys and reduce those related documents into one object graph...
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Kerr Rainey <kerr.rai...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Great question, I'd say no it runs entirely against the grain of what >> CouchDB is. Documents aren't supposed to be related to one another. But >> relational databases don't handle this kind of thing either so I figure why >> not CouchDB as it offers other features that solve lots of problems. > > I think in most practical apps that Couch targets there are > relationships between docs. The canonical Blog example has comments > that are children of a parent post. I think the emphasis on reminding > people that CouchDB is not relational tends to lead people to the > conclusion that the documents won't be related in some way. Of course > CouchDB doesn't have any built in way to specify those relationships. > > I've been playing around with conventions for specifying doc > relationships and how an app layer would make those relationships easy > to handle. It seems to be quite useful so far. It would be > interesting to see if it was possible / sensible to push some of that > further down into CouchDB. > > -- > Kerr >
