A Question on whether to use a Nested Datatype

[Mark_Harwood]

I’ve shared this flowchart before to help with the decision process for nested:

Indexing Hierarchical Couchbase Documents

From the example documents you supplied there's no indication that doc 2 should be related to doc 1. You have 3 options : Collapse all source docs into a single "flat" JSON doc Collapse all source docs into a single "nested" JSON doc [1] Store parent and child source docs separately but relate them when you add them [2] The decision process for why you would choose one approach over another is roughly this: [image] I'm unfamiliar with the couchbase plugin and to what extent it can be made…