Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-user-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 84744 invoked from network); 17 Mar 2011 04:51:34 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 17 Mar 2011 04:51:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 80368 invoked by uid 500); 17 Mar 2011 04:51:33 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-user-archive@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 80338 invoked by uid 500); 17 Mar 2011 04:51:32 -0000 Mailing-List: contact user-help@couchdb.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: user@couchdb.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list user@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 80330 invoked by uid 99); 17 Mar 2011 04:51:30 -0000 Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 04:51:30 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.5 required=5.0 tests=FREEMAIL_FROM,HTML_MESSAGE,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (nike.apache.org: domain of dominic.tarr@gmail.com designates 74.125.82.180 as permitted sender) Received: from [74.125.82.180] (HELO mail-wy0-f180.google.com) (74.125.82.180) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 04:51:22 +0000 Received: by wyj26 with SMTP id 26so2829832wyj.11 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 21:51:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=4RTCOxLw+9A4anYDmP5t5WEiZfve8XgTfoMoOCCVdw8=; b=KuJfWFCzFiB4eIDe6e0S09AMh8rG958gYSdoQH/oRbsPMUut/VHFkdz9HCXHosJSpW jXtXkV2BvL8uslz7baGfKFCLfGDyRsVOUeuIPPLMY9z4y2Lv/wSC/wm7zvgn6AgCHg6e h4/6LUkPctfbispnVO2Pwxqo8oowYL2f8B5GY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=j7p18HQB4JW/wGfiz7UQ8xC0sNxMPJ5ahr20pZFI6SGguhh0Wdl8aOduX1V+iihCo/ hqxQwjLgCq/ijAZyk7VJobvyVHz3dBIUuXcu3ufBzjkX1xbtyz7BsCbSjdy9IulLcY5e cIlSS9pE9JcrwEXGuQxFm/UzjNW9fFH6V0Bb8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.227.169.140 with SMTP id z12mr888151wby.89.1300337462231; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 21:51:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.227.146.213 with HTTP; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 21:51:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:51:02 +1300 Message-ID: Subject: multiple database or many doc types in one database? From: Dominic Tarr To: user Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=20cf300255c08644ed049ea66889 X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org --20cf300255c08644ed049ea66889 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 is it a good idea to 1. separate documents for different types of thing into different databases? or is it better to 2. just have a type='whatever' and check for that in your views? I'm starting to think that 2 is enough seperation, and 2 is silly. are there any reason to use 2, except maybe to stop keys colliding? (which is easy enough to do in other ways...) cheers. Dominic --20cf300255c08644ed049ea66889--