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Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 23:16:25 +0300
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Subject: Re: Defining my document model when the source is entity-relationship
From: Vlad GURDIGA <gurdiga@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Thad Guidry<thadguidry@gmail.com> wrote:
> Morbus,
>
> I can think of one wiki article that helped me tremendously in understand=
ing
> the CouchDB way of relationships. =C2=A0And how I could apply that to lib=
rary
> cataloging techniques.
>
> http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/EntityRelationship

I apologize for the fact that I may be a little off-topic but reading
this article a question came up regarding the second model presented
in the "One to Many: Embedded Documents" section:

{
  "_id":"Scott",
  "type":"contact",
  "name":"My Friend Scott",
  "phones":[{"home":"(650) 555 - 2200"},{"mobile":"(650) 555 - 2201"}],
}

What is the pros and cons of having phones stored as an array of
associative hashes versus having them as an associative hash? Here is
what I mean:

{
  "_id":"Scott",
  "type":"contact",
  "name":"My Friend Scott",
  "phones":{"home":"(650) 555 - 2200","mobile":"(650) 555 - 2201"}
}

It seams to me more intuitive syntax.