CouchDB best practices - all entities in a single db vs a new db for each entity?

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I am starting with CouchDB. What is the accepted best practice to utilize databases? A single database per application storing all kinds of entities with smth like "_type" property to discriminate one from another or a separate database for each kind of entity?

score 17 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 05 '12 at 05:48

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One database with lots of different types of document, so you can take advantage of View Collation. Note that top-level names prefixed with an underscore, e.g. _type, are reserved for CouchDB.

edited Jul 05 '12 at 05:48

Octavian Helm

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CouchDB best practices - all entities in a single db vs a new db for each entity?

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