MongoDB Tutorial
A Convenient Way to Build Real-Time Data Model in MongoDB
Introduction Unknowingly, we’ve arrived in the year 2023, and MongoDB has already released version 7.0. MongoDB has pioneered the unique category of document model databases, bringing us many surprises in terms of products, technology, and business. More and more developers are developing their applications with MongoDB. Often times, when developers are working with MongoDB, they need to move data from existing relational databases into MongoDB to support new use cases. Because MongoDB’s unique, denormalized document model, it often means we need to sync data from multiple relational tables into a target JSON. This article is aimed to illustrate a convenient method to achieve this purpose. MongoDB Unique Features Before the advent of MongoDB, developers primarily working with SQL databases often followed the traditional three-normal form standards when designing data table structures. Under this standard, data from different domains that were related to each other were often designed as separate table structures and then linked using some association criteria. While maintaining data accuracy was relatively easy due to the existence of independent data, developers often had to write complex SQL queries to meet their business requirements. MongoDB’s usage pattern, on the other hand, is quite the opposite. MongoDB encourages developers to...