best way to flatten across documents?

[Seung Chan Lim]

I don't know if this is even possible, but I'm curious.

What I want to do is basically cross-document flattening(merging). 

Say I have 5 documents

(DOC 1)

_jd : 1

name: people

members: [2,3]

(DOC 2)

_id: 2

name: John Doe

age: 25

comments: [4]

(DOC 3)

_id: 3

name: Jane Doe

age: 23

comments: [5]

(DOC 4)

_id : 4

content: "I love you Jane"

(DOC 5)

_id: 5

content: "I love you, too, John"

reply_to: 4

Say I want to, as quickly as possible, retrieve the content of all 5. (The entire content of the conversation between everyone in the db) What would be the best practice?

For example, is there a way to, in one shot, ask for all 5 documents given that there are links embedded?

slim

[Jens Alfke]

On Oct 16, 2014, at 12:10 PM, Seung Chan Lim <djs...@gmail.com> wrote:

For example, is there a way to, in one shot, ask for all 5 documents given that there are links embedded?

No; you'll have to get them one by one. They're stored in separate rows in the database, so even if we had an API to get them together, it wouldn't be any faster.

There are some tricks you can use with views to aggregate together properties from related documents, but they may be overkill for your case. The best advice I can give now is to write your code the simple way first and see if it's fast enough.

—Jens